The Sea Inside Quotes

“The sea defines us, connects us, separates us. Most of us experience only its edges, our available wilderness on a crowded island - it’s why we call our coastal towns ‘resorts’, despite their air of decay. And although it seems constant, it is never the same. One day the shore will be swept clean, the next covered by weed; the shingle itself rises and falls. Perpetually renewing and destroying, the sea proposes a beginning and an ending, an alternative to our landlocked state, an existence to which we are tethered when we might rather be set free.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

“Our bodies are as unknown to us as the ocean, both familiar and strange; the sea inside ourselves.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

“dolphins are not the benevolent mammals we’d like them to be; those beaming faces hide the minds of assassins.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

“You assume you know your home. It’s only when you return that you realise how strange it is.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

“A port city relies on its relationship to elsewhere.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

“The sea defines us, connects us, separates us. Most of us experience only its edges, our available wilderness on a crowded island – it’s why we call our coastal towns ‘resorts’, despite their air of decay.”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

“On gizzards of gulls, hawks and owls, The heat of lizards, spurs of fowls, Bones of pigs, air-sacs of eagles, Moaning dingos, barking beagles; Sleek opossums, prickly hedgehogs, Buffaloes, dormice, wolves and dogs”
― Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside