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"I line up to the distant markers where cormorants perch. I've reached my limit. I turn back to the beach, scrabbling like a goose to find my depth once more. Naked on the sea wall, I give a little dance, singing to myself. If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside yourself, then I feel happier than I have ever been. Everything stripped away; everything renewed. Just me and the sea." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #philiphoare #theseainside #book #bookstagram #beach #swim #night #stars #journey #whales #suburbs #travel #wanderlust #happiness #nonfiction #borrow #read #4theastatebooks #page33

"The ability to adjust to changing conditions is one of the internal clock's signature characteristics. This is why a Corophium in the Bay of Fundy and its cousin in Normandy can have the same genetic biological clock, each adjusted differently to the conditions under which it lives. If a Fundy Corophium were shipped overnight and placed on the mudflats of Normandy, it would continue to express the tide cycle of its home environment, just as the bees did when shipped to New York. But within a few days (if it didn't lose its life in the meantime), its inner clock would synchronize with Normandy tides. The French bees made this same adjustment when shipped to New York, eventually resetting their clocks to New York time. Humans do this, too." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #tides #jonathanwhite #science #spirit #ocean #internalclock #time #biology #rhythm #cycle #moon #nature #water #force #bookstagram #book #borrow #read #page33

"He knew he had gone out on the kayak. Remembered loading it onto the car, gulls along the shallow river, luminous somehow in the early morning light, then drifting out at sea. The time in between was gone. Like a cigarette burn in a map." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #cynanjones #cove #kayak #kayaking #outdoor #lightning #mystery #shortstory #water #memory #book #bookstagram #borrow #read #page33

"In the Sands he couldn't be lost. He became a different man there: no-nonsense, a figure of authority. And as we put the coastal plain behind us and approached the desert, the unease between us lifted. I might have been a camel. He would lead me, I would follow." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #williamatkins #theimmeasurableworld #journey #desert #oman #australia #china #kazahstan #usa #egypt #burningman #festival #sand #dunes #coast #thirst #camels #wanderlust #hermits #bookstagram #faberandfaber #travel #traveler #read #page33

"Yet Melville had one advantage over Victorian engineers and twenty-first century scientists. He was an artist; and he could ask questions without having to supply answers. He was like a sailor dropping his plumb line over the side in order to gauge the depth of the sea, waiting for his lead weight to come to a stop, only to discover that the line would play out forever." Philip Hoare, essay PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #shiptoshore #art #lure #jeanwainwright #interviews #contemporary #artists #art #johnhansardgallery #seacitymuseum #southampton #uk #dreams #sailing #swimming #drowning #themes #inspiration #confessions #bookstagram #exhibition #borrow #read #melville #maritime #page33

"I joined my companions. Neither of them spoke a word of greeting. Nor were they scanning with their binoculars. They were staring blankly into the sound. Three cups of coffee steemed on the small shelf in front of us. I knew this older man and woman had read as much Arctic history as I had, and now I realized what had made them silent. There was not a single ice floe in the waters ahead. Not a scrap of ice. We saw numerous ringed seals and bearded seals swimming there, but the polar bears we'd be certain we'd find hunting those seals were nowhere to be seen. Their hunting platforms were gone." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #jurmala # latvia #barrylopez #horizon #legend #arctic #travel #wander #world #planet #climate #ice #seals #bears #polar #memoir #life #lifelong #book #bookstagram #autobiography #alfredaknopf #borrow #read #page33

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Readers borrow books for free, but you can support the Sea Library so it could grow.

Lasītāji grāmatas ņem un lasa par brīvu, bet tu vari atbalstīt Jūras bibliotēku, lai tā augtu.

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don’t you ever get a feeling that your lamp reads too #sealibrary #sunday

very funny to revisit our childhood dreams and teenage notebooks #darbnīca #homefor20years Foto: @zane.iltnere

name day boy #love #Niklāvs #happyhabitat

Didn’t know what it was until it started to look like seaweed. Kelp scarf anyone? I will make it long enough... #seaweed #xmass

My four-year-old has learned to read. His first weeks in this new world of decoding signs that now mean something to him. He reads everything he sees. Including the colourful book spines in the Sea Library #Niklāvs

Strange animal coming out of reeds and approaching a pile of warm clothes. Photo by Niklāvs #firstsnow #freezingfun

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You can donate a book to the Sea Library to help to fill its shelves. Send me a note, if you have a sea book you no longer need. I will take a good care of it and find a reader. Contact!

Ja tev ir grāmata par tuviem un tāliem ūdeņiem un jūras pasauli, kuru vairs nelasi, bet gribi, lai lasītu citi, dāvini bibliotēkai! Raksti man.

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