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“Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.”

Way Earth Opportunity Born Sea Wind Currents Spread Sail Right Way

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.”

Men Life Dream Fall Born Sea Endeavor

Author:Joseph Conrad

“My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.”

World Humans Wells Given Stars Born Natural Animal Sea Land Planets Depends Civilization Creatures Relation Plant Contemporary Well Being Natural World

Author:Chellis Glendinning

“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.”

Art Said Whole Names Water Born Lines Chance Poor Boys Sea Dying Fields Rivers Lays Lips Caught Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Swim Shore Estates Hook Inheritance Prey My Boys Pastures Oxen

Author:Ovid

“For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature”

Joy Born Sea Produce Quiet Rivers Longing Fishes Boat Peaceful Lakes Fishing Unspoken Anglers Inbreds

Book:The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing

Source: The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing

“Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the ardour with which the Anglo-Americans prosecute commercial enterprise, the advantages which befriend them, and the success of their undertakings, I cannot refrain from believing that they will one day become the first maritime power of the globe. They are born to rule the seas, as the Romans were to conquer the world.”

Source: Democracy in America

“Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.”

“I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.”

Firsts Ideas Born Taken Sea Events Movement Ocean Wave Rhythm Great Events

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.”

Men Dies Grows Born Sea

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.”

Born Work Sea Afar Marvellous Isle

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.”

People Life Trying Turns Born Sea Wind Casts Blow Boat Rhythm Tides Harbors

Author:Cynthia Voigt

“Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.”

Country Born Forget Sea Birth Comfort Oxygen Once Upon A Time Jelly

Book:The death notebooks

Source: The death notebooks

“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”

Source: The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892

“Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.”

Ifs World Said Facts Hands Born Common Grace Air Tree Sea Creation Appreciate Tasks Clean Available Massive Cleanliness Proceeding Baptized Pears Augustine God's Creation Clean Air

Author:Joseph Sittler

“I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.”

Country Born Dark Sea Lows Gold Raised Shoulders Islands Sunshine Carolina Born And Raised

Book:The Prince of Tides: A Novel

Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel

“Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?”

Men Soul Born Sea Ocean Bird Dwelling

Author:Rumi

“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.”

“If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.”

Ifs Born Sea Draws Magnet

Author:Marc Almond

“A child born today will experience an increase to sea level of about three to six feet. The rate of change is so remarkable and so dramatic. We are already seeing the consequences of man-made climate change.”

Men Children Made Today Three Born Levels Seeing Sea Feet Six Consequence Increase Climate Rate Climate Change Dramatic Remarkable Rate Of Change

Author:Jeff Orlowski

“What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."”