This is the time of year when men's thoughts turn of the tropics, where the sun shines brightly, the ocean is warm and calm, and the days are lazy and long. Nowhere will one see a sea so sparkling and colored by azure and turquoise. It's the ideal place to shuck one's clothes and embrace life's joys. |
| Photo reconstructed by Noah Parrell |
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
~Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, journalist and environmentalist
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceness as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea.
~Anna Morrow Lindbergh, author
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us sso that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
~Loren Eisely, essayist and literary naturalist
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
~William Manchester, historian and author
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| Photo reconstructed by Noah Parrell |
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the Earth.
~Rachel Carson, environmentalist
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
~Anna Morrow Lindbergh
Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.
~Author unknown
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
~Jacques Cousteau, explorer
May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.
~Author unknown
Look deep into nature, and then your will understand everything better.
~Albert Einstein
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