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“The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east”

World Character Body Form Water Sea Ocean East Lovely Chains Defined Chiefs Narrative Islands Jewels Gems Caribbean Alluring Bodies Of Water

Book:Caribbean: A Novel

Source: Caribbean: A Novel

“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.”

Source: Silent Spring

“Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.”

Mean Sea Planets Ocean Stronger Storm Chains Islands Australia Pollution Continents Havoc Food Chain

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.”

May Left Wish Sea Land Mines Comfort Chains Thee Vain Ties Land And Sea

Author:William Wordsworth

“No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.”

Men Needs Forever Failing Sea Effects He Man Absence Honestly Chains Compass Needles Magnet Pitiful Intervening

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.”

Littles Country Together Hate Three Language Hours Sea Century Europe Standing Window Train Shoulders Chains Stations Flags Crushed Passengers Rush Hour National Language

Author:Quentin Crisp

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

Said Ends Law Sea Civilization Ocean Chains Ties They Said Food Chain Sailing And The Sea Sea Water

Book:Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist