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Her eyes turned to me, wide and wondrous. Why do you like the water? she’d replied.

I’d smiled and tapped her nose. Because it always teaches me something new about life.

M. Lu, Sea Maples

"You stay away from a place too long and you begin to see it’s ugly. Land living is ugly, it’s too steady and it’s arrogant. I don’t remember it but collective memory tells me that it was wilfully ignorant."
Mohale Mashigo, Floating Rugs

I wonder now if my mother knew then that she would one day have to surrender me completely to the sea.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Improvisations on an Ocean Call

"The thoughts you think on land, the old man said, are different from what you think with the sea. In the sea you learn to think with the water, the fish. That’s why people who make decisions on land, separated from the world by glass and concrete, air-conditioning and software, have such terrible ideas for the world."
Vandana Singh, Mother Ocean