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“Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.”

Wells Heart Taken Sea Special Merit Classic Special Places Canon Cannibalism Literary Merit

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.”

Taken Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing

Book:The Complete Cynic

Source: The Complete Cynic

“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.”

“And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.”

People Hands Age Night Taken Wife Sea Rivers Fishes Old Age Boat Lakes Fishing Ponds Promiscuous Bridal

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)”

“We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.”

Humanity Taken Sea Planets Demand Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Marine Keepers Fisherman Stewards High Seas

Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.”

Firsts Ideas Born Taken Sea Events Movement Ocean Wave Rhythm Great Events

Author:Isadora Duncan

“The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.”

Want Giving May Doe Wish Taken Sea Ocean Seeds Ships Spit Whales

Book:The Eyes of the Amaryllis

Source: The Eyes of the Amaryllis

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.”

Firsts Said Enough Poor Taken Seeing Sea First Time Delight Manchester

Book:The Pleasures of the Life

Source: The Pleasures of the Life

“It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.”

Thinking Law Taken Blood Sea Atheism Positive Atheism Idols Despotism

Author:Voltaire

“From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.”

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage