Sea Level Rise

Famous quotes containing the words sea, level and/or rise:

“The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

“How will it be with kingdoms and with kings—
With those who shaped him to the thing he is—
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world,
After the silence of the centuries?”
—Edwin Markham (1852–1940)