Sea
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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.
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Praise the sea, on shore remain.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
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.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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