Sea Level Rise

Famous quotes containing the words sea, level and/or rise:

    “It was a soft medicine
    that came from the sea into my mouth,
    moist and plump.
    I swallowed.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:
    The word outleaps the world, and light is all.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)