Quotes About Estuary

My first work space is my office in the cookery school in Padstow. It looks out over the Camel Estuary. I'm very lucky because I've got this office with the most fantastic view. I love looking out. There's always boats coming and going.

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.

We name it and let sorrow's lightning discharge through us. And it's not like we're free even then. We move forward companioned with spirits. This place of desolation is one we will visit often. It is here we learn to be permeable as an estuary, to breathe more deeply. To open our hands.

How she loved the smell of road: asphalt baking and soft in high July, dirt roads with their dust-and-pollen perfume in June, country lanes spicy with the odor of crushed leaves in sober October, the sand-and-salt smell of the highway, so like an estuary, in February.

His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death...

An oyster tastes good because at one spot in the natural world, something went right. A great oyster is an estuary flashing a thumbs-up sign.

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.

The pre-dawn air was quiet and cool; the sky showed the colors of citron, pearl, and apricot, which were reflected from the sea. Out from the Tumbling River estuary drifted the black ship Smaadra, propelled across the water by its sweeps. A mile offshore, the sweeps were shipped. The yards were raised, sails sheeted taut and back-stays set up. With the sunrise came breeze; the ship glided quickly and quietly into the east, and presently Troicinet had become a shadow along the horizon.

Río de la Plata, a funnel-shaped river located on the coast of what is now Argentina.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

Ni un mar, entonces, ni un canal, ni el camino hacia la riqueza. Tal vez ni siquiera un río, sino más bien un estuario. Es decir, resumiendo, un cúmulo de malentendidos, una suma de equivocaciones, un error perpetuo expresado sobre el agua. Por una derivación impensada de tantas y tantas fallas, existe la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Y existimos los que la habitamos.

This is the fundamental characteristic behind the growth of all complex organisms. The same forms recur in many different circumstances, in different materials both organic and inorganic, on a vast range of scales. A small part of our circulatory system looks like the whole. It looks like a tree, like an estuary, like a stream-bed.