One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.