“I stop, filled with wonder, then turn my back on the ocean to face inland toward a land that is scarified.”
Stern, Lesley. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. p. 19. muse.jhu.edu/book/52400.
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“Kumeyaay regularly fished the kelp beds and near shore ocean, as well as San Diego Bay. Migratory birds were hunted in the salt marshes.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p. Laguna Resource Services, INC., Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. August 1, 2016. Accessed July 2020.
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“Take, for example, the following natural phenomenon. On one side of the terrain is a windblown, pounding ocean beside which is a mountain reaching to the sky. We notice that much rain might fall along the coastal area, and, upon the slopes of the mountain, lush and dense vegetation might be stunted and bent by constant strong winds.”
Yip, Wai-lim. Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. p. 154.
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“In the wealth of new knowledge there is no discovery more paradoxical than this: the ocean floor is younger than the ocean. Below the ancient waters the sediments and the underlying rocks are constantly renewed.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 55-56. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“Music is the noiseless sound made by the swimmer in the ocean of consciousness. It is a reward which can only be given by oneself.”
Yadegari, Shahrokh. "The Radif as a Basis for a Computer Music Model: Union of Philosophy and Poetry through Self-referentiality." PhD diss., University of California, San Diego, 2004. p. 6. Miller, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn. In "The Radif as a Basis for a Computer Music Model: Union of Philosophy and Poetry through Self-referentiality” by Shahrokh Yadegari, 66. PhD diss., University of California, San Diego, 2004.
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“The bit of earth upon which I press my feet here and now and the larger earth that yields me food and drink, this ocean with its relentless power when goaded by winter storms, and with its heavenly peace and calm in its middle stretches under the summer’s tropical sun, the blue sky, the approaching night, and the night and the morning, the sun, the stars, the milky way, the grass, the trees, my animal companions, the wild birds, the barn-yard fowls, my dogs, the cattle, the horse, and above all my human friends, my colleagues in work, and my family—all these have for me a reality that no disorder or dimness of mind (unless indeed, these go to the point of swoon or delirium) or no speculative sophistication can strip them of.”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Probable Infinity of Nature and Life: Three Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 131.
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“The earth is greater than the American Continent or the Pacific Ocean in a deeper sense than merely that these are only two among many parts of the earth. The earth's superiority to these is not merely quantitative; it is generative as well.”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Higher Usefulness of Science, and Other Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 59.
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“Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates; it is also nocturnal, anaerobic, cannibalistic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative: cooking away in the warm dark. Life is well maintained at a four-mile ocean depth, is waiting and sustained on a frozen rock wall, is clinging and nourished in hundred-degree desert temperatures.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 110.
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“I would like to call on the spirits of the whole East Asian region and ask them to welcome us here. Our audience and allies for the next four days include ocean currents, volcanoes, Siberian breezes, Pacific storms, the orca of the deep sea, the brown bear of the inner mountains, the tiger of marshes, the rhesus monkeys of the forests, the red-capped cranes (tancho tsuru) of Siberia, Korea, China, and Japan, the spirits of rice and sweet potato, and as always, the Goddess of Dance and Song.”
Snyder, Gary. "Ecology, Literature and the New World Disorder." Irish Pages 2, no. 2 (2004): 19-31. Accessed May 31, 2021. p. 19-20.
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“Along some margins of the ocean the spreading ocean floor moves the adjacent continents; elsewhere the floor plunges downward in deep trenches and disappears into the earth's interior [see ‘The Deep-Ocean Floor,’ by H. W. Menard, page 126].”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 56. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“Magnetic, thermal and seismic observations show that near the summit of the ridge new rock wells up from the mantle below and slowly moves outward across the ocean basins. Along some margins of the ocean the spreading ocean floor moves the adjacent continents; elsewhere the floor plunges downward in deep trenches and disappears into the earth's interior [see ‘The Deep-Ocean Floor,’ by H. W. Menard, page 126].”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 56. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“I believe that in times to come these 20 years when men gained a new level of understanding of their planetary home will be thought of as one of the great ages of exploration.
In the wealth of new knowledge there is no discovery more paradoxical than this: the ocean floor is younger than the ocean. Below the ancient waters the sediments and the underlying rocks are constantly renewed.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 55-6. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“The ocean has an impact on all our senses: the unique sea smell, the crashing sound of breakers, the glitter of waves dancing under the sun and the moon, the feel of spindrift blowing across one's face, the salty, bitter taste of the water. Yet the spell of the ocean is more than mystery and sensory delight. Part of it must come from outside the senses, from half-forgotten memories and images beyond imagining, deep below the surface of consciousness.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 55. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“Thunder-showers occur here during the summer months, and impressive it is to watch the coming of the big transparent drops, each a small world in itself,— one unbroken ocean without islands hurling free through the air like planets through space.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 152.
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“We might have done it; we thought we could do it; we can no longer believe it possible. Like a great ocean liner that slows down and then comes to a standstill in the Sargasso Sea, the moderns' time has finally been suspended.”
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. p. 77.
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Harvard University Press
“These ways we spoke together, against goodbye, like sailor boys in the olden days who'd be on a fleet together, then apart. It’s not a failure of love, you said by the wall, but of choosing place over person. Hope rolls like an ocean, too, and breaks. You made chains, meantimes, from lovers. This was rotten work.”
Howe, Fanny. For Erato: The Meaning of Life. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1984.
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MIT