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“In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”

May Ends Lasts Past Sea Return Ocean Rivers Mysterious Streams Origin Of Life Transmutation

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.”

Thinking Knows Past Night Hope Behinds Sea Land Shore

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”

Past Values Animal Sea Taught Shapes Longing Competition Chaos Load Our Past Uncles Cousin Aunt Frailty Family Values Clans Exuberance

Author:Timothy Shriver

“The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.”

Want Feels Trying Age Past Sea South Nostalgia Golden Golden Age

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.”

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“No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.”

Giving Past White Animal Sea Brother Members Red Give Me Blue Fishes Kingdoms Maturity Meat Nurse Cheese Brothers And Sisters Vegetarianism Your Brother Animal Kingdom Red Meat Blue Cheese

Author:Prince

“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.”

People Has Beens Ideas Able Past Belief United Sea Design Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Progressive

Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.”

Way Made Stills War Use Today Past Fighting Difficult Common Sea Method Common Sense Ships Permanent Navy Infrastructure Sea Power

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.”

Men Way Has Beens Two Country Feelings Past Interest Sea Findings Enlightenment England Blessed Unity Fancy Injury Mutual Ireland Two Countries

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.”

Has Beens Light Past Sea Sky Wind Comfort Forgiving South Blow Good Day Miami

Author:Iggy Pop

“To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.”

Past Sea Hills Wet Voyages Cattle Pastures

Book:Selected Poems of Padraic Colum

Source: Selected Poems of Padraic Colum

“The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.”

Source: Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History

“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

Men Soul Light Past Stars Black Dark Knowing Sea Rocks Horse Towns Down And Moved Rose Passing Passings Ships Grass Salt Drowning Whales Passing Through Seamless Ferry Colts

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.”

Heart May Past Moving Joy Speak Memories Forget Grief Tree Sea Sky Fields Flower Broken Rivers Gold Green Pity Unseen Folds Ripple Gleam Heart Broke Mead Glisten

Author:William Morris

“Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.”

“We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.”

Past Stars Water Blood Sea Dying Late Ancient Patterns Atmosphere Composition Carbon Galaxy Living Things Metabolism Ions

Author:George Wald

“We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.”

Humans Past Energy Grows Sea Land Century Huge Ocean Harvest Habitat Sea Change

Author:Annalee Newitz

“I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's undersea, it's in cyber. Estonia in 2007, hit by Russian cyber-attacks. So what you see there with those exercises are critical.”

Thinking Years Past Air Sea Exercise Critical Over The Past Nato Cyber Modernization Estonia Cyber Attacks Undersea

Author:Michael Leiter

“Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding.”

Years Past Sea Summer Climate Winter Climate Change Ice Fifty Village Shore Protected Over The Past Arctic Alaskans

Author:Ray Metcalfe

“The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.”

Past Sea Balls Indian Bumblebees

Author:Navjot Singh Sidhu

“I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.”

Humor Funny Past Bits Sea Meat Load

Author:Tim Vine

“But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.”

Inspirational Self Past Peace Power Sea Slave Self Respect Swim Sublime Plunge New Self

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

Men Soul Past Stars Black Knowing Sea Drowning Whales Seamless Ferry

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.”

Mind Hands Today Past Memories Forget Fate Tree Sea Sky Crazy Tomorrow Sorrow Let Me Wave Driven Rings Ruins Smoke Beach Sand Frightened Take Me Diamond Frozen Twisted Circus Of My Mind Windy

Author:Bob Dylan