Sea And Sky Quotes

• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Sea, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Reality, Sea

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.24, Random House

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• Smell the sea and feel the sky.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

  Sarah Kay

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Blue, Sea, Sky

  Yves Klein, Gimpel Fils (1973). “Yves Klein”

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• The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

  Robert Wyland

  Inspirational, Beach, Nature

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

  Robert Henri

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

  John Dyer

  Sky, White, Sea

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Sea, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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• Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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  The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

  Henry Beston

  Beach, Nature, Rain

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.19, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

  John Masefield

  Lonely, Stars, Sea

  "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Blue, Color

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• A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, People

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Breathing

  "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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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

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

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• At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Ocean, Night

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• All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

  John Masefield

  Stars, Sea, Sailing

  John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

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• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beach, Ocean, Wave Of Life

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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