"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery
about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings
seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
- Herman Melville
[anthropomorphic as usual]
This is the epigraph to a chapter entitled "The Pattern of the Surface" in Rachel Carson's beautiful 1951 National Book Award winner, The Sea Around Us. It concludes with this sentence:
"For all at last return to the sea -- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end."
Amen, sister. Happy Earth Day, everybody! Please help keep our precious planet clean.
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