It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!
Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.
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