“What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.”
- Charles Lindbergh
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
― Orson Welles
“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.”
― Wyland
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog
“Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.”
― Paul Theroux
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
― Michael Jordan
“Rugby League is a simple game played by simple people. Rugby union is a complex game played by wankers.”
- Former Australian captain Laurie Daley.
“Out of the water, I am nothing.”
― Duke Kahanamoku
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.”
― Henri Matisse
"And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush - the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.”
― Henry Lawson
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising.”
― John Muir
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.”
― Mark Twain
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams
“The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are welcome and all prosper, made no longer of lies but truth, built not of rich men's hate but our love for our island and for each other.”
- Richard Flanagan
“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
– Leonardo DaVinci
“Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.”
— Henry Ford
‘The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
- John Muir
