Ocean
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
—Jacques Cousteau
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Derelict with eyes
I settle in a quiet
carnival of waves
—Sonia Sanchez
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The waves of the sea help me get back to me.
—Jill Davis
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The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
—Isak Dinesen
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At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.
—Robin Lee Graham
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy
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Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.
—Heinrich Zimmer
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The ocean is more ancient than the mountains and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
—H.P. Lovecraft
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
—Kahlil Gibran
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The sea, the great unifier, is our only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.
—Jacques Cousteau
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raging seas—
lying over Sado island
the Milky Way
—Basho Matsuo
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poem: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Poem: Woman Watches Ocean on a Reef through a Glass-Bottomed Boat
Poem: “Any fool can get into an ocean . . .”
Poem: Sea Glass for a Second Son
Poem: Hurricane Warning: Surfers
We’re all invited To The Lighthouse