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“Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.”

Real Next Difficult Party Sea Security Crime Scene Blind Ships Warning Investigation Schedules Blindness Floats Peril Incidents Unwilling Port Passengers Thorough Blinded Cruise Operators

Author:Chris Shays

“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.”

Next White Half Seeing Sea Middle Building Stones Sight Glasses Wave Heavy London Boat Dirty Score Concrete Flood Steel Bricks Spit Rowing Slate Foam Submerged Spires Asphalt

Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

“The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.”

Years Earth Next Levels Existence Sea Feet Increase Add New Orleans Temperature

Author:Ray Nagin

“We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.”

Next Sea Areas Rivers Management Population Fishes Decades Boat Lakes Fishing Protected Marine Embedded Rebuilding Fisheries

Book:5 Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems

Source: 5 Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems

“Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.”

Firsts Lasts Next Chance Forget Sea Rivers Casts Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Next Time Anguish Forget It Cast Away

Author:Tony Bishop

“...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.”

Book Reading Next Pleasure Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Favourite Persuading Pleasure Of Reading

Book:Fishing

Source: Fishing

“We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.”

Way Heart May Next Differences Generations Sea Tongue Distinction Next Generation

Book:Historical Tracts

Source: Historical Tracts

“I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.”

People Next Fun Grows Growing Up Sea Keys Grew Type Grew Up Lows South Open Minded Sociable Low Key

Author:Nicki Minaj

“The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.”

Has Beens Made Stills Light Next Morning Sea Moon Picks Stones Blue Pockets Smooth

Book:All of Us: The Collected Poems

Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems

“One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.”

Years Firsts Two Earth Culture Next Nations Levels Sea Building Becoming Ocean Highest Hundred My Favorite Committed Indian Carbon Meter Favorite Places Windmills Maldives

Author:Bill McKibben