At the Waters Edge

“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.”

-Henry David Thoreau

Following the light of the sun,

we left the Old World.

-Christopher Columbus

Ships are the nearest things to dreams

that hands have ever made.

-Robert N. Rose

You can't change the wind, you can, however, adjust your sails.

-Unknown

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-William Shedd

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea,
whosegently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath...

-Herman Melville