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“I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”

Thinking Men Firsts Humans Heart Night Guy Lines Wonder Fire Doors Sea Wall Draws Built Caves

Author:Tana French

“One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.”

Wells Said Light Sea Sky Advice One Day Draws Appreciate Blue Blue Sky

Author:Claude Monet

“Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'”

Thinking Giving Sea Mines Draws Rivers Give Me Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Betray Angle Hook Pierce Antony

Author:William Shakespeare

“There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.”

Men Form Water Magic Sea Land Draws Rivers Fishes Boat Hills Streams Lakes Fishing Creeks Over The Hill

Author:Herman Melville

“The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he feels an ecstacy as though he had performed a miracle each time.”

Men Feels Clear Sea Draws Rivers Miracle Raises Fishes Strikes Senses Boat Dry Lakes Subtle Fishing Wet Steel Indication Bending Anglers

Author:G. E. M. Skues

“If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.”

Ifs Should Humans Heart Inspiration Would Be Sea Listening Ocean Draws Infinite Shells Human Heart Hollow Sea Shell

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.”

“When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.”

“I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.”

Art Motivation Stuff Process Clear Sea Conditions Draws Flow Swim Delicate Membranes

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.”

Source: Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough

“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in”

World Doe Soul Faces Night Cities Wise Sea Streets Battle Shapes Quiet Draws Shots Horse Trade Dear Bones Forests Gates Camps Pale Bloody Hunters Invited Naps Carts Dear Friend Hounds Warp Weavers

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.”

States Dream Culture Found Sea Mankind Draws Symbols Altered Residual Altered States

Author:Carl Jung

“Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.”

Trying Mind Creativity Sea Source Quiet Draws Empty Wave Surface Mood Calmness Restlessness Tranquil Contemplative Vacant

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“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

“We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.”

Believe Fighting Nations Wealth Liberty Sea Mankind Objects Draws Resources Britain Great Britain Bonaparte

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816