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“The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun. (Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, Wilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)”

Art Done Light Running Age Sun Sea Cry Fool Mountain Ethics Lays Guides Old Age Faster Dry Wheels Flats New Age Dry Up

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.”

Body Water Emotion Sea Effects Taste Bird Conscience Warm Smell Dry Sand Weary Outlook Dwelling Spit Bathing Bodies Of Water Sea Birds Bleaching

Book:Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

Source: Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

“Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.”

Wells Wish Moral Sea Land Creatures Rivers Relation Dear Fishes Boat Code Dry Lakes Fishing Moral Code Dry Land

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.”

Sea Type Rivers Series Fishes British Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Rebellion Typical

Book:Trout on a fly

Source: Trout on a fly

“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

“I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one”

Giving Feels Water Views Sea Position Easier Advantage Rivers Finals Fishes Legs Impression Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Rough Realistic Tied Conventional Insects Floats Files Parachutes

Author:Lefty Kreh

“Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.”

Wells Enough Together Used Hours Half Sea Special Materials Rivers Patterns Fishes Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Dozen Emphasis Feathers Whips Fur Vests Midges

Author:Jack Ohman

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

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“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.”

Years Firsts Ends Shows Problem Running Water Seeing Sea Huge Goes On Civilization Flow Rivers Environmental China Decades Chinese Dry Yellow Cradle Shortage

Author:Lester R. Brown

“New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.”

Fighting Difficult Technology Sea Produce Demand Deserve Victim Careful Dry Convince Pirate Drains New Technology Abolition Copyright Weakening Navigation Sophistry

Author:Mark Helprin

“Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God.”

“We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components.”

Able Sea Ships Dry Components Sailor Docks

Author:Otto Neurath

“Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.”

Sea Planets Huge Ocean Rivers Fishes Dry Lakes Fishing Ecosystems Tolls Ocean Sea Lakes And Rivers

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.”

Wanted Realizing Sea Strange Adults Desert Dry Unpredictable Shifting Desolate

Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”