Taliesin Quotes

There are three fountains In the mountain of roses, There is a Caer of defence Under the ocean’s wave. Illusive greeter, What is the porter’s name?

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• I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Sea

• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Water
  • Best

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Balance
  • Ocean
  • Changing

• I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Business
  • Philosophy

• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • Help
  • Risk

• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Skiing

• Every drop in the ocean counts.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Ocean
  • Environmental
  • Drop

• During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Ocean
  • Lights

• Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Small
  • Mountain

• The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • Information
  • Wealth

• Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Good
  • Character
  • Lost

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar,'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Sea
  • Angry
  • Ocean

• According to Eshin's 'Essentials of Salvation,' the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Ocean

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Children
  • Real
  • American

• It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Changing

• I like to be nervous, as I push myself harder.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Nervous
  • Push

• There are three fountains In the mountain of roses, There is a Caer of defence Under the ocean’s wave. Illusive greeter, What is the porter’s name?

  

  Taliesin
  • Ocean
  • Mountain