100+ Sea And Sky Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: 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

topic: Beach, Nature, Rain, Sound Of Rain, Sound Of Water

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

source: John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

topic: Lonely, Stars, Sea, Captain Kirk, Mariners

There is 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.

- Lord Byron

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

topic: Lonely, Nature, Travel, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

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

topic: Blue, Sea, Sky, Sea And Sky

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

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

topic: Ocean, Sea, People, Maritime, Ocean Sea

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

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

topic: Education, Teacher, Nature, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Nature

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

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

topic: Ocean, Sea, Water, Breathtaking, Ocean Conservation

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Ocean, Thinking, Blood, Mariners, Ocean Currents

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

topic: Stars, Ocean, Night, Floating In Space, Sea And Sky

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

topic: Beach, Ocean, Sea, I Pray, Ocean Currents

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

- Andre Gide

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

- Gertrude Ederle

topic: Children, Crazy, Ocean, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. 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

topic: Lonely, Rain, Moving, Chests, Rain Falling

All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.

- J. Arthur Thomson

topic: Flower, Hair, Sea, Solved Problems, Interrogation

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

- Van Morrison

source: "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

topic: Ocean, Sea, Sky, Beach And Ocean, Beach Ocean

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Confused, Ocean, Sea, Uneasy, Bad Thoughts

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

- Patti Smith

topic: Children, Believe, Sea, Beacons, Sea And Sky

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

- Lauren DeStefano

source: Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

topic: Ocean, Forever, Touching, Sea And Sky

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.27, OUP Oxford

topic: Morning, Clouds, Wind, Sea And Sky

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Sea, Sky, Amazing Life, Sea And Sky

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.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.32, Om Books International

topic: Beach, Ocean, Air, Oceans And Seas, Long Beach

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Ocean, Men, Sea, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan

topic: Sea, Sky, Perfect, Plenitude, Sea And Sky

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

- Christopher Paolini

source: Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Nature, Hate, Ocean, Inspirational Nature, Shackles

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Dream, Travel, Home, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

- Bernard Moitessier

source: Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Stars, Children, Real, Sea And Sky

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

- Lucretius

topic: Blow, Order, Design, Infinite Time, Sea And Sky

The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.