“Life takes you down many paths, but my favorite ones lead to the beach.” – Unknown.

“Aren’t the clouds beautiful…they look like big balls of cotton…I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by…” – Charles Schultz, The Complete Peanuts, vol. 5 1959-1960.

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau

“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.” – Washington Irving.

“Don’t bend, don’t break, baby, don’t back down.” – Bon Jovi, It’s My Life.

“That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.” – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea.

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…” – Henry David Thoreau