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“And I realized more and more that the Armenian story was not so much one of massacre and persecution, as survival.”
― The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
― The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
“That is the essential wisdom of the sea, its paradox. It quickens us, extends us, prompts feats of innovation and courage, then washes them all away.No trace remains; man and mountain yield to the leveling force of the sea. In its omnipotence, its beauty and its purity, the sea is the earthly manifestation of the divine.”
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“The sea teaches the lesson every ecologist urges us to understand about the natural world: that it cares nothing for us, that it will survive us.”
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“But I know, too, that "love of the sea" is not strictly accurate. Mariners do not love the sea. Love for the sea is something you feel from the shore. You can admire the sea from a deck; you can be drawn to it, awed and terrified by it. If you are out on the water, your affection is not for the shifting mass all around the hull, but for the hull itself. What seamen feel for their vessel is something that elevates it high above the inanimate.”
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