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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. -- Abby Sunderland
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. -- Peter S. Beagle
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle. -- William Shakespeare
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. -- Abby Sunderland
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. -- Ernest Hemingway
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. -- William Shakespeare
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast. -- Judy Garland
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. -- Karl Shapiro
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve? -- Davy Jones
If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference. -- Edward Kennedy
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. -- William Bligh
What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. -- Henry David Thoreau
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. -- George Chapman
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast. -- Charles Dickens
Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat. -- Phillip Noyce
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire. -- Charles Dickens
Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world. -- Tove Jansson
I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover. -- Daniel Quinn
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. -- Henry David Thoreau
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old! -- Friedrich Schiller
Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines. -- John Burnside
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires. -- Paul Kingsnorth

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