Van Morrison
Singer-Songwriter
"Smell the sea and feel the sky."
Sea quotes
Sea
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Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea."
Thomas Fuller
Physician
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"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."
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"There's never an end for the sea."
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"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."
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"I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea."
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"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life."
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"I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence."
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"If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."
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"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much."
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"There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."
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"I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea."
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"Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you."
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"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea."
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"If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea."
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"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."
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"We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom."
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"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
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"How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself."
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"Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea."
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"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
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"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
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"There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any."
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