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“The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.”

Sound Break Ocean Beach

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.”

Feels Sound Hours Like You Civilization Ocean Wave Traffic Doorstep Malibu

Author:Jennifer Harrison

“There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.”

Sound Ocean Wave Patterns Rhythm Breathing Plus Surfing Similarity Ocean Wave Sound Waves

Author:Jon Foreman

“The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.”

Humans Sound Sides Sea Ocean Eternal Perception Edges Tendencies Human Thought

Book:Among the Isles of Shoals

Source: Among the Isles of Shoals

“Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.”

Humans Sound Born Heard Ocean Distance Wave Edges Continents Curves Highways Sharks Whales Fresh Start Lulls Coastline Time And Distance

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.”

Earth Dies Heaven Sound Hours Hell Flower Ocean Depth Caught Breathe Shade Delicate Verses Echoes Delicate Flower

Author:Catherine Maria Fanshawe

“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”

Should Sound Music Generations Style Ocean Ears My Time Capture Mud Annoyance

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”

“The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.”

Sound Voice Ocean Instruments Musical Score Selected Visitation Articulating

Author:Anne Waldman