Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.