Balmy Beach Beachers

Famous quotes containing the words balmy and/or beach:

    The Graces, and the rosie-boosom’d Howres,
    Thither all their bounties bring,
    That there eternal Summer dwels,
    And West winds, with musky wing
    About the cedar’n alleys fling
    Nard, and Cassia’s balmy smels.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-traveled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)