The Sea is a work of popular science about the ocean, bringing together Carson's writing on the sea in a single volume. It looks at how the ocean began, how water moves in currents and tides, and what kinds of life fill its surface, shallows and deep places.
Carson writes with scientific care and a poet's eye, helping readers feel the scale and age of the sea. The book shows why she became so admired as a guide to the natural world, and why the ocean mattered so deeply to her.
Quotes
Enten ... shaped lagoons in the water of the sea. He let fish and birds together come into existence by the sea.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
Alone, alone, all, all alone,Alone on a wide wide sea!And never a saint took pity onMy soul in agony.