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“The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.”

Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

“A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.”

Thinking Way Heart May Reality Language Strong Sea Letters Dialogue Instance Thrown Bottles Stakes Routes Shoreline Letter In A Bottle

Author:Paul Celan

“Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.”

Way Would Be Sea Special Policy Creatures Behavior Ocean Areas Critical Harm Insurance Policy

Author:Sylvia Earle

“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.”

People Way Moments Humanity Forget United Seeing Sea Unique Touched That Moment Never Forget Woodstock

Author:Edgar Winter

“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

“Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.”

“As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.”

Men World Way War Earth Lord Air Sea Crafts Mortals Boards Sail Sailing Sinking Milky Way Admiral

Book:White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“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

“We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.”

Way War Force Rights Sea Security Property Defense Territory Establishment Security Forces

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.”

“I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.”

Way Want Air Sea Moon Atmosphere Spite Aviation Length Predictions Vessel Voyages Sea Voyage

Author:Lord Byron

“In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.”

Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

“When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!”

Ifs Way Lines Chance Powerful Sea Rivers Hunger Fishes Boat Meat Lakes Fishing Prize Fisherman Bait Trout Roving

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

“We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.”

Ifs World Way Able Heaven Air Sea Bears Limits Sight Wings Fishes Our World Summit Sluggish

Author:Plato

“Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.”

Way May Able Lost Language Stars Journey Sea Forgotten Boat Sailor Port Psycho

Author:Rich Mullins

“When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.”

People Knows World Way Mean Long Made Stories Bigs Pay Attention Clear Too Much Sea Ice Swings Retreat One Direction Long Story Variability

Author:Andrew Revkin

“What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.”

World Way Firsts Mean Art Stories Lost Imagination Sea Figures Empathy Spread Architecture Ice Storyteller Compass Love Someone Geography Navigate Telling Stories Vastness Arctic

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.”

Way Stories Sea Right Way

Author:Richard Linklater

“It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.”

Way Fun Sea Summer Privacy Port

Author:Ivana Trump

“Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way.”

Way Sides Break Sea Rocks Blue Diamond Blue Sea Deep Blue Sea

Author:John Gorka

“I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the way we looked at the situation was that the world we live in is a dangerous place. There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true.”

World Way Problem Situation Roles Sea Dangerous Violent Doctrine Being True Developing Horizon Dangerous Places

Author:Sam Smith

“All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.”

Way Different Fall Sea Flow Rivers True God Different Religions

Author:Ramakrishna

“Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.”

“The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.”

Way States Moments Turns United United States Sea Dying Goes On Happenings Rain Rivers Fishes Forests Soil Poisoning Pesticides

Author:W. S. Merwin

“After you die, your body is just there. Isn't it kind of embarrassing that your body is going to be there and you have no say or control over it? Somebody's going to have to deal with it. I've always respected people who kill themselves and find a way to get rid of the body. Very clean. Lost at sea. I can see why they do that. There's nothing left.”

People Way Kind I Can Body Dies Lost Left Deals Sea Clean Your Body Over It Embarrassing Lost At Sea

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.”

Way Trying Littles Made I Can Eye Can Do Poor Fire Sea Meetings Refugee Belly Greece Crossings Treacherous

Author:Douglas Booth

“A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.”

Way Life Needs Mind Light Spirituality Water Sea Taste Thousand Moon Reflection Rivers Seven Gardening Worldly Worldly Life Drop Of Water

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.”

Way Kind Littles Said Ideas Whole Song Sea Land Waste Bigger Discussion Phrases Realms Floating Poke Scum Footnotes Waste Land

Author:Ted Leo

“It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.”

Way Facts America Energy Water Air Sea Becoming Soil New Ways Steam Scarce Becoming More Removal Drilling Fracking Deep Sea Fresh Water Extraction

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.”

Ifs Way Important Care Fall Levels Issues Sea Feet Trump Climate Climate Change Dear Cease Ice Shelves Important Issues Greenland Sea Level Rise

Author:Moby

“We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is groundbreaking. And together with the sustainable development goals of the agenda 2030 for the whole world, this is indeed a sea change, I think, that we see here, and, step-by-step, it will be implemented.”

Thinking World Way Whole Able Together Goal Steps Sea Development Climate Whole World Paris Agreement Agendas Groundbreaking Sea Change

Author:Angela Merkel

“It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.”

Way War Seems Clear Sea Tragedy Absolutes Surprise Contemporary Confused Concentration Camps Suspicious Aesthetics Grind Skeletons Concentration Camp

Author:Paul Virilio

“It was hilarious [last scene with Edward Cullen] considering we'd spent the entire series filming in the most miserable conditions, and then we end on the beach in the Caribbean filming for two days in the sea. That was fun. We literally did the last shot as the sun was coming up in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. It was a nice way to end it, because they were considering shooting it in the sea in Vancouver, which would not have worked at all.”

Way Two Ends Lasts Fun Sun Nice Sea Conditions Scene Shots Series Miserable Beach Shooting Islands Considering Virgins Two Days Caribbean Vancouver St Thomas

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.”

Knows Way Ends Feelings Seems Might Community Knowing Sea Grew Grew Up Enlightenment Sick Towns Wings Absence My Way Australia Fishing Gaps Conservation Hook Marine Redneck Dose Spears Hunted

Author:Tim Winton

“Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would really change in any fundamental way.He was a tragic figure, for he raised a false hope, cast a brief ray of light that was snuffed out when he died.”

Way Believe Light Sea Figures Holy Goodness Waste Died Fundamentals Raised Casts Tragic Rays Pope False Hope Rays Of Light Amoeba

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Way Country Body Bits Powerful Sea Particular Ready Solutions Areas Treats International Not Sure Commerce Arctic

Author:Kofi Annan

“Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.”

“There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

Thinking Way Life Believe Two Education Doubt Sea Two Ways Slice Of Life

Author:Alfred Korzybski

“I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.”

Way Firsts Heart Dream Beautiful Remember Memories Sea Childhood Rocks My Heart Rivers Sight Wounds Fixed Rapids

Author:Lucy Larcom

“Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.”

Men Way Shows Break Air Sea Sky Flying Flight Aviation Airplane Traveler Great Aviation Uncharted Signposts Airplanes And Flying Uncharted Waters

Book:NORTH TO THE ORIENT

Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT

“There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.”

Way Force Situation Fire Blood Sea Objectives Horizon Blazing Forging New Horizons Present Situation

Author:Gamal Abdel Nasser

“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”

Way Giving May War Pain Sea Duty Painful Consideration Officers Great Business Horatio Endless Sea

Author:Horatio Nelson

“England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.”

Way Given Sea Lucky England Islands Frontiers

Author:Salman Rushdie

“"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".”

Knows Way Said Water Sea Tears Cures One Way Do You Know Sweat Salt Salt Water

Author:Isak Dinesen

“Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.”

Ifs Way Needs Long Seems Sea Return Spring Rain Core Vines Overflow Elementals Soaking Spring Rain Wetness

Book:House Next Door

Source: House Next Door

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

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