Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
“We tend to forget that when we enter the sea, we’re entering a foreign environment. It’s not ours. We can’t breathe underwater. When we enter the sea, it’s a wilderness experience. In any wilderness experience, there are potential dangers to be involved in that environment. Luckily for us, the sea is a pretty benevolent place. Each year, millions of people enter the sea and come out unscratched and unscathed and oblivious to the notion that they’ve had a wilderness experience. But we all need to remember that, especially if we go in areas where large predators such as white shark live.”
Source: George Burgess on the Science of Shark Attacks https://www.outsideonline.com/1911871/george-burgess-science-shark-attacks (December 18, 2012)
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Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
The Life of Poetry (1949)
Context: Poetry is not; or seems not to be. But it appears that among the great conflicts of this culture, the conflict in our attitude toward poetry stands clearly lit. There are no guards built up to hide it. We call see its expression, and we can see its effects upon us. We can see our own conflict and our own resource if we look, now, at this art, which has been made of all the arts the one least acceptable.
Anyone dealing with poetry and the love of poetry must deal, then, with the hatred of poetry, and perhaps even Ignore with the indifference which is driven toward the center. It comes through as boredom, as name-calling, as the traditional attitude of the last hundred years which has chalked in the portrait of the poet as he is known to this society, which, as Herbert Read says, "does not challenge poetry in principle it merely treats it with ignorance, indifference and unconscious cruelty."
Poetry is foreign to us, we do not let it enter our daily lives.
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Source: [A sea ethic: floating the Ark, Blue Ocean Institute, 2005, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.495.177&rep=rep1&type=pdf]
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