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“It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.”

Watches Struggle Sea Wind Wave Pleasant Shore Total War Dashing

Author:Lucretius

“Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.”

Littles Watches Sea Dear Verses

Author:Connie Chung

“Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.”

“Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.”

Watches Knowing Sea Sky Wind March Gray Arches North Wind

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.”

Thinking Men Stills Earth Dies Heaven Grief Watches Rich Wise Sea Moon Train Calm Rage Melancholy Heirs Mirth Majestic

Book:1914 & Other Poems

Source: 1914 & Other Poems

“A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.”

Knows May Ends Found Lost Watches Sea Jewels Celestial Ions

Book:1718-1727

Source: 1718-1727

“If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.”

Ifs Knows Country Sports Water Boys Watches Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Popular Sports

Author:Hal Borland

“I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.”

Feels Passion Sports Watches Greater Sea Ought Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Ethical Ceremony Frontiers Angling Reverberation

Author:Thomas McGuane

“... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.”

Half Watches Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing This Day Dozen Unseen Creeps

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.”

Watches Sea Pleasant Shore Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Lucretius

“Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!”

Life Watches Sea Sail

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”

Source: African Silences

“When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!”

Thinking Watches Clear Sea Sky Land Pure Moon Calm Rising Full Moon

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.”

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.”