January 13th, 2020

Passage from  The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
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For the sea as a whole, the alternation of day and night, the passage of the seasons, the procession of the years, are lost in its vastness, obliterated in its own changeless eternity. But the surface waters are different. The face of the sea is always changing. Crossed by colors, lights and moving shadows, sparkling in the sun, mysterious in the twilight, its aspects and its moods vary hour by hour. The surface waters move with the tides, stir to the breath of the winds, and rise and fall to the endless, hurrying forms of the waves.  (1)


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(1) "The Sea around us." by Rachel Carson, Oxford University Press, 1961, p. 41.