Sea Level Rise

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

    “If the sea were ink
    For the words of my Lord,
    the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.”
    —Qur’An. The Cave 18:109, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)