Calm Waters Quotes

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.