"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…"

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

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

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

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

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

"How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thenc…"

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

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