Comtemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies jsut beyoind our grasp...what is the meaning of so tiny a being as the transparent wisp of protoplasm that is a sea lace, exisiting for some rason inscrutable to us, a reason that demands its presence by the trillion amid the rocks and weeds of the shore? The meaning haunts and ever eludes us, and in its very pursuit we approach the ultimate muystery of life iteslf - Rachel Carson

You exist by your smile and your presence.. you exist in nature. You are part of the glittering sea, and part of the luscious, well-nourished plants, you are wedded to the sun, you are immersed in timelessness, only the present counts, and from the present you extract all the essences which can nourish the senses.. as you swim, you are washed of all the excrescences of so-called civilization, which includes the incapacity to be happy under any circumstances. - Anais Nin

The sea holds an abundance of comfort and inspiration and danger, all that a person needs in order to rise to the full largesse of beauty.. if you allow this beauty to become a blank, if you turn your back to the blues and deny your dependence on them, you might lose your place in the world, your actions would become small, your soul disengaged. - Ellen Meloy