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“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.”

Break Sea Cold Ocean Stones Tongue Arise Gray

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.”

World War Earth Night Stars Lines Darkness Sun Sea Cold Moon Red Ghost Pale Haunting Red Sea

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.”

Men Seems Earth Space Sea Cold Birth Devil Empty Hot Wave Iron Caves Hacks Deep Sea

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.”

People Mind Firsts Book Country Lasts Humanity Roles Sea Century Fashion Cold Devil Europe Quarters Foe Resorts Hereditary

Book:Seven Gothic Tales

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

“The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.”

Clear Sea Sweet Cold Rivers Rounds Wave Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Silver Vague

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.”

Beautiful Water White Sea Cold Rivers Green Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Far Away Pacific New Zealand Trout Cold Water

Author:Zane Grey

“In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water”

Thinking Mean I Can Two Running Fun Water Sea Fine Cold Thousand Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Insects Screening Running Water

Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.”

Sea Cold Creatures Rivers Fishes Kingdoms Boat Lakes Fishing Animated Heartless Cold Blooded Unchristian

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.”

Doe Young Night Song Dies Belief Stars Grief Sea Sky Cold Wave Flight Thrilling Phoenix Starry Night

Author:May Sarton

“Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.”

May Whole School Water Fire Sea Cold Ocean Wave Fishes Surface Autumn Metals Sheets Here And There Schools Of Fish

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“God said,--"Let there be light!" Grim darkness felt His might, And fled away; Then startled seas and mountains cold Shone forth, all bright in blue and gold, And cried--"'Tis day! 'tis day!" "Hail, holy light!" exclaim'd The thunderous cloud that flam'd O'er daisies white; And lo! the rose, in crimson dress'd, Lean'd sweetly on the lily's breast; And blushing murmur'd--Light!”

Said Light Might Felt White Darkness Sea Cold Holy Mountain Gold Dresses Blue Rose Clouds Breasts Cried Lilies Grim Hail Daisies Crimson Blushing Holy Light Blue And Gold

Book:The Poetical works

Source: The Poetical works

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”

World Hard Moving Dark Knowledge Forever Clear Imagine Sea Cold Mouths Historical Breasts Salt Symbolism

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk.”

Years Made War Used Nations Sea Students Huge Cold Protect Shining Woods Defense Nuclear Variety Bombs Classroom Desks Cold War Strategic Covering Missiles Drills Planners

Author:Dave Barry

“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.”

“The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.”

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.”

Eye Black Dark Behinds Sea Streets Cold Down And Holes Passing Passings Ashes Ink Torches Steep Canyons Squids

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only country in the world really not to have a war fought on its territory since the time of the Civil War ... Therefore we can afford mistakes that would kill other countries. And therefore we can take risks that they can't ... the core answer to why the United States is like this is we didn't fight World War I and World War II and the Cold War here.”

“What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.”

“We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.”

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection