Swimmers
- Vri'l - The lover of Tre'c in a story from the Saga of Seven Suns. Because the two could not stand each others natural environments, Vri'l built her home on a raft in a seacove, and Tre'c built his home high up on the rocks. One day, however, there was a gigantic storm, which washed them both away.
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Famous quotes containing the word swimmers:
“Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“But as these angels, the only halted ones
among the many who passed and repassed,
trod air as swimmers tread water, each gazing
on the angelic wings of the other,
the intelligence proper to great angels flew into their wings,
the intelligence called intellectual love....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)