“The Pacific Ocean: Part 1”
“As Skylar sat there, arms entwining knees, thought replaced by wonder; as his eyes sailed what looked to be the endless Pacific, he became more intimate with the world than he had ever been. The plunging, chasmed depths of the ocean (inversions of the soaring, colossal peaks of the mountains), rising up to shelves and shores were, he saw, simply the bottom of a great tea cup whose beverage was the sea. And the land, thirsty for it, constantly tipped this 70-million-square-mile cup to its lips, splashing the liquid out of the vessel and then pulling it back in through the flow and ebb of the tides.”