...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Gary Paulsen
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  1. The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too - Vincent Van Gogh

  2. I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. - Nikos Kazantzakis

  3. It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life... - Rachel Carson

  4. In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves. - Rolf Edberg

  5. I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. - Unknown

More Quotes By Gary Paulsen
  1. I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

  2. And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

  3. This is the final book about Brian

  4. If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

  5. I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

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