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“Travel by water was often faster, smoother, more efficient, and in many circumstances safer and more convenient than overland travel, which presents obstacles and threats from animals, people, terrain, and even the conventions and institutions of shoreside society.”
― Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

“the mystery we have met in life overcomes us in death. The mystery that awaits us beyond death is but the antiphonal response to the mystery that anticipated our birth.”
― Wallace M. Alston Jr., The Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Formation and Practice of a Pastor-Theologian

“Brilliant, windy day—cold. It is fall. It is the kind of day in October that Pop used to talk about. I thought about my grandfather as I came up through the hollow, with the sun on the bare persimmon trees, and a song in my mouth. All songs are, as it were, one’s last. I have been grateful for life.”
― Thomas Merton, A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals

“Let us have Winter loving that the heart May be in peace and ready to partake Of the slow pleasure Spring would wish to hurry Or that in Summer harshly would awake, And let us fall apart, O gladly weary, The white skin shaken like a white snowflake.”
― Elizabeth Jennings, The Collected Poems