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Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.
Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
By shaping some august decree, _x000D_Which kept her throne unshaken still, _x000D_Broad-based upon her people's will, _x000D_And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . .
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
The sea is the universal sewer.
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.
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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.
Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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