"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow stream’d off free: We were the first that ever burst Into that …"

"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle…"

"When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could h…"

"The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know…"

"You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? [...] They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the re…"

"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull’d by the coil of his crystàlli…"

"At certain periods of the evening and the morning the blue of the Mediterranean surpasses all conception or descripti…"

"That centre was the Mediterranean; which was not so much a piece of water as a world. But it was a world with somethi…"

"The lonely billows of the Atlantic, where every breeze speaks of courage and liberty."

"I think the difficulty the Enlightenment view of the world encountered very early on is that human beings struggle to…"