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“The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.”

World Ends Whole Earth Nations Sea Mankind Wind Glory Flow Regions Divides New World Tides Swelling Thames

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.”

Play Earth Lying Sea Sky Creatures Ocean Mark Blue Bounds Rounds Clouds Wide Regions Blue Ocean

Author:Bryan Procter

“Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean.”

Stills Humanity Fire Sea Ocean Depth Deeper Generous Rising Regions Expanding Oceania

Author:Epeli Hau'ofa

“We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.”

May Moving Courses Sea Effects Position Objects Produce Particular Distance Determine Speed Regions Stations Relative Globes Vessel Electrical

Book:My Inventions: And Other Writings

Source: My Inventions: And Other Writings

“It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.”

Men Forever Sea Poet Criticism Critics Wander Regions Old Man Enchantment

Book:Select Poetical Works

Source: Select Poetical Works

“Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.”

Years Play Song Simple Sea Land Speech News Instruments Musical Regions Devices Principal Globes Lectures Musical Instruments Inexpensive

Book:The Wireless Tesla

Source: The Wireless Tesla

“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.”

“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.”

“Looking at the map of the Russian Federation, one can see a country covering mostly northern areas; today more than 70 percent of our territory is or can be referred to as northern, if not the Far North. We have a rather small warm Black sea strip in the South and - to tell the truth - quite a few regions with a hospitable warm climate.”

Ifs Country Today Black Sea Percent Areas South Climate Warm Telling The Truth Regions Maps Territory Covering Federation

Author:Vladimir Putin

“As far as I know, Russians are the first among tourists going to Turkey; last year three million Russians visited that country, although its climate zone is almost the same as the one of the Black sea region. Therefore, we have had an important task to develop an infrastructure in this region of the Russian Federation.”

Knows Years Firsts Important Country Lasts Three Black Millions Sea Tasks Climate Zone Regions Last Year Infrastructure Turkeys Tourists Federation

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.”

States Action Remember Law United United States Sea Including International Consistent Regions Conventions Norm International Law Nothing New

Author:Barack Obama

“Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.”

Littles Country Problem Lying Poor Sea Materials Forgotten Appeals Islands Regions Isolated Desperation Emergencies Strategic Poor Countries Niger

Author:Desmond Tutu