The Sea Is Not Made of Water Quotes

“Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don't 'have' it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.”
― Adam Nicolson, Life Between the Tides

“There is no distinction between flux and stillness; they are one.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“Nature is more than a quarry to be eaten away at by your own ego-fixated technologies.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“Community, the woven thing, is one of the foundations of life on Earth.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“I am witnessing, unfelt by me, a world being dragged to a stop, the spin of time seeping out towards the final entropy.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“Knowledge cannot embrace whatever it seeks to know”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“We are not what surrounds us. We are not the world we live in. The presence of our selves is the most enormous thing we know.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“To be with anything, life must overflow its brim.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“The experience of the world broadens with the reality of other creatures made vivid within it.”
― Adam Nicolson, Life Between the Tides

“Pause for a moment and a place will pool out around you, not as an illusion but as a fact, in details it would not have had if you had not stopped to look.”
― Adam Nicolson, Life Between the Tides