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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007
19:28
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] What is your
favorite quotation?
Doug J,
My slogan is the name I gave my first psub: Undaunted.
The quote I guide my life by is: Don't question authority...they don't
know either.
My favorite submarine quote is:
Yes, I
love it. The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the
globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert
where a man is never alone, for he can feel life quivering
all about him. The sea is only a receptacle for all the
prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it; it is only movement and
love; it is the living infinite, as one of your poets has said. And in
fact, Professor, it contains the three kingdoms of nature- mineral, animal and
vegetable. This last is well represented by the four groups of
zoophytes, by the three classes of articulata, by the five classes of
molluskes, by the three classes of vertebrates, mammals and reptiles, and by
those innumerable legions of fish, that infinite order of animals which
includes more that thirteen thousand species, only one tenth of which live in
fresh water. The sea is a ! vast reservoir of nature. The world,
so to speak, began with the sea, and who knows that is will also end with the
sea! There lies supreme tranquility. The sea does not belong to
tyrants. On the surface, they can still exercise their iniquitous
rights, fighting, destroying one another and indulging in their other earthly
horrors. But thirty feet below its surface their power ceases, their
influence dies out and their domination disappears! Ah, Monsieur, one
must live- live within the ocean! Only there can one be
independent! Only there do I have no master! There I am
free!
Captain Nemo, 2K Leagues, end of chapter 10.
Doug Farrow
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From:
djackson99@aol.com
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent: Thu, 1 Mar
2007 10:07 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] What is your favorite
quotation?
What motivates you to build a submarine? What is your favorite quotation or slogan regarding submersibles or ocean exploration? --Doug
J