Tim Winton Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.

  Tim Winton

  Nature, Sea, Doe

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

• There is nowhere 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.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, Sea

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.6, Penguin UK

• Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that walking on a beach at low tide is to be looking for death, or at least anticipating it. You will only find the dead, the spilled and the cast-off. Things torn free of their life or their place.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, Believe

• The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

  Tim Winton

  Nature, Ocean, Unexpected

• The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

  Tim Winton

  Spiritual, Nature, Sea

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

• The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, People

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.66, Penguin UK

• For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

  Tim Winton

  Nature, Sea, Relief

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