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“No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.”

Light Earth Sea Sky Arms Bird Terror Harm Monsters Beast Bent Wrath Brutes Bolts Swarms Whirlwind Spawn Flare

Book:The Oresteia

Source: The Oresteia

“There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.”

Should Made Names Stuff Grace Sea Land Rivers Tired Species Fishes Monsters Cruelty Boat Awe Lakes Fishing Immense Scotland Unnatural Trout Coups

Author:Arnold Gingrich

“Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.”

Sea Rivers Praise Fishes Monsters Boat Sand Lakes Fishing Makers Tails Wags

Author:Cotton Mather

“My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.”

Want War Sometimes Desire Simple Fate Sea Couple Prove Rivers Size Fishes Monsters Boat Symbols Lakes Fishing Manhood Cooperatives Frying Latches

Author:John Steinbeck

“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”

Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors

“The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.”

People Kind May Certain Sea Areas Drawing Campaigns Monsters Maps Expecting Explorers Unexplored Just Say No

Author:Terence McKenna

“Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.”

Loss Sea Kings Moon Mouths Rose Seven Monsters Over It Thieves Pearls Jewelry Marcos Polo Marco Polo

Book:Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”

Dream Would Be Dark Sleep Sea Ocean Monsters Lurking Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Sea And Sky

Author:Werner Herzog

“One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.”

Years Ideas Reason Running Used Guy Names Sea Couple Monsters No Idea Call Me

Author:Jo Brand