Beautiful Sea

Famous quotes containing the words beautiful and/or sea:

    “A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “For half a mile from the shore it was one mass of white breakers, which, with the wind, made such a din that we could hardly hear ourselves speak.... This was the stormiest sea that we witnessed,—more tumultuous, my companion affirmed, than the rapids of Niagara, and, of course, on a far greater scale. It was the ocean in a gale, a clear, cold day, with only one sail in sight, which labored much, as if it were anxiously seeking a harbor.... It was the roaring sea, thalassa exeessa.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)