"Though inland far we be

our souls have sight of that immortal sea..."

--William Wordsworth

"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us

think things we like to think."

--Robert Henri

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought

of which the sea would not be a part."

--Hermann Broch

"A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see nature really smile..."

--Augustus William Hare

"There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fisherman's cafe."

--Joseph W. Beach

I am very happy here in Columbus. I've fallen in love with the city itself, but I do have one complaint--it's inland. This has been a problem for me and probably always will be, no matter how at home I am here. I once read that if you're born near the ocean, your connection to water never goes away. I find this to be irrefutable...