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“The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east”

World Character Body Form Water Sea Ocean East Lovely Chains Defined Chiefs Narrative Islands Jewels Gems Caribbean Alluring Bodies Of Water

Book:Caribbean: A Novel

Source: Caribbean: A Novel

“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”

Heart Done Water Nature Sky Rocks Creatures Glad Lovely Heal Scar Invincible

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.”

Giving Wisdom Earth Joy Water Chance Perfect Rocks Fairs Lips Riches Lovely Pearls Oblivion Sullen Rarity Lovely Things

Book:Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.”

Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse

“Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.”

Knows Giving Earth Left Term Water Planets Moon Standing Surface Absence Lovely Atmosphere Colour Contrast Looking Back Starks Desolate

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.”

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”

World Water Air This World Woods Lovely Meadows Wales

Book:God's Grandeur

Source: God's Grandeur

“If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”

Ifs Hands Beautiful Stars Water Imagination Sea Lovely Senses If I Could North Star

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.”

Matter Earth Universe Water Existence Ocean Lovely Plenty Dependent Soup

Book:Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans