“Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.”

“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”

“I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.”

“Im sort of coming off a bad relationshipWhen did it end?Slightly before it started.”

“Wasnt hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasnt hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?”

“What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? D...”

“Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?”

“Mountain is mountain.”

“That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could h...”

“At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hea...”

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above t...”

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully a...”

“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”

“No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.”

“In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the...”