#fathom

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#exploration #explore #land #mysterious #mystery

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#emotions #emptiness #empty #fathomless #jackson-pearce

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. ↗

— William Godwin

#ocean #shore #unfathomable #without

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom. ↗

— James Buchan

#attacks #believed #best #bin #difficult

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. ↗

— John Cusack

#chunk #clock #even #fathom #good

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another. ↗

— William Dampier

#another #close #farthest #fathom #half

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#bad #close #concept #difficult #family

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#carry #emotion #intelligence #often #our

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. ↗

— Max Planck

#come #every #go #great #i

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#animal #animal life #fathoms #life #probably