Israel welcomes the wind of change and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

I used to be such a militant city-ist but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye looking on finds its own.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean and the instruments are little or bigger islands very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning fishing rod in tow and just drift about the ocean all day.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb and it's that mix of people it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains at the huge waves of the sea at the long courses of the rivers at the vast compass of the ocean at the circular motions of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.