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“For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.”

Grows Sea Rocks Ocean Mark Wave Wilderness Expecting Tides Envious Bowels Waxing

Book:Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays

Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays

“Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.”

Kind Hands Able President Millions Successful Greater Sea Hundred Areas Rivers Fishes Delight Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Wilderness Pens Solitary Good Friend Strokes Alaska Acres Unsuccessful

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.”

Ifs Long Two Attention Sea Rivers Paid Fishes Legs Boat Lakes Fishing Wilderness Arrangements Stalking Swamps Long Legs Herons

Book:I Go A-fishing

Source: I Go A-fishing

“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.”

Men Way Humans Seems Force Stars Prayer Human Beings Sea Atheism Positive Atheism Invisible Wilderness Melville

Author:Maxine Greene

“There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.”

Sea Amount Ocean Enormous Wilderness

Author:Sylvia Earle

“It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest”

Light Sun Sea Rocks Gold Autumn Wilderness Glowing Oaks Maple

Book:The Grand Canon of the Colorado

Source: The Grand Canon of the Colorado

“A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.”

Eye Lost Sea Huge Fool Mass Sight Towns Wide London Smoke Dirty Wilderness Crowns Sail Coal Bricks Here And There Caps Shipping Tiptoes Masts Peeping Canopy Steeples

Author:Lord Byron

“Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.”

Years Made Fighting Mistake Sea Red Wilderness Red Sea

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings