tides Quotes

″... I can hardly believe my eyes. Who would have ever imagined, under this terrestrial crust, an ocean with ebbing and flowing tides, with winds and storms?”

“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.”

“Little Toot felt very lonely. He wasn’t wanted anywhere or by anyone. With his spirits drooping he let the tide carry him where it willed. He did not see the sky grow dark. He did not feel the wind blowing harder and harder. The wind was whipping into a real storm.”

“But ever since you tole it to me, that’s what I been goin by. I been lettin the ‘tide’ carry me and tryin to do my best. Do the right thing.”

“The big black dog sat in the yard looking at the sea. The tide was out and the mud flats were alive with seabirds. Curlews were calling and ibises walked with heads down, searching with their beaks for crabs in the seaweed.”