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Alone, alone, all, all, alone;
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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
Moby-Dick
And then, as never on land, he knows the truth that his world is a water world, a planet dominated by its
covering mantle of ocean, in which the continents are but transient intrusions of land above the surface of
the all-encircling sea.
—Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us
