WHERE BEAUTIFUL WAVES ARE HAPPENING NOW
“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There’s nothing to interfere with the mind’s eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly image. I suppose its the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.”
- Billy Joel
“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.”
- Saint Augustine
“Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.”
- Rudolf Otto
“History moves in contradictory waves, not in straight lines”
- Louis Beck and Nikki Keddie
“I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.”
- Mike May
“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.”
- Richard Le Gallienne
“And if you never stop when you wave goodbye, you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again. You just might wave hello again. And that’s the way this wheel keeps working now.”
- John Mayer
“Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.”
- Duke Kahanamoku
“Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.”
- Anna Seward
Read more about Beautiful Waves, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Chromatic Waves Now, A Universe of Waves Now, Amber Waves Now and Art Waves Now.
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PHOTO CREDITS:
- Photo: by Theophilos Papadopoulos. “Rock Splash.”
- Photo: by Crouchy69. “Bangalley Boom.” Incoming tide at Bangalley Boom, Sydney Australia.
- Photo: by Brent Pearson. Terrigal Waves in North Avoca, New South Wales, Australia.
- Photo: by Beverly & Pack. Aurora Borealis.
- Photo: by Neil Howard. “Long Exposure of Waves over Rocks on Alderney.”
- Photo: by Pandu Adnyana. “Tender Waves.”
- Photo: by Tom Gill. Breaking Waves at St.Joseph Lighthouse Pier, Michigan.
- Photo: by Kris Williams. “'Expanse' - Newborough Beach, Anglesey.”
- Photo: by josef.stuefer. Guillemins Railway Station, Belgium.
- Photo: by Rene Jakobson. Sand dunes after rain.