We never tire of the sea; it is a laboratory in which delightful processes are continually being wrought out for our admiration and use. Its flora and its fauna, its waves and its tides, its salts and its currents, all afford grand and profitable themes of study and thought.


The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology, Chapter XVIII, section 740 (p. 394), Sampson Low, Son & Marston. 1868

Matthew Fontaine Maury Quotes

We never tire of the sea; it is a laboratory in which delightful processes are continually being wrought out for our admiration and use. Its flora...

We never tire of the sea; it is a laboratory in which delightful processes are continually being wrought out for our admiration and use. Its flora...

We never tire of the sea; it is a laboratory in which delightful processes are continually being wrought out for our admiration and use. Its flora...

We never tire of the sea; it is a laboratory in which delightful processes are continually being wrought out for our admiration and use. Its flora...