“There is no where else I’d rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.”

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.”

“I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.”

“I didn’t want to leave the sea, so I snuck away without anyone noticing and spent 2 days on the stormy shore. This is where I belonged, where all the silver walls led. To salt and sea and wind pockets that could carry you away.”

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.”

“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”

“The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.”

“The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world… There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

“The river has great wisdom and whispers its secrets to the ears of men.”

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless at a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.”

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men are wrapped in mystery.”