#pacific

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing -- a blanket -- the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#pacific-northwest #rain #life

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us. ↗

— Louise Brown

#famous #favorites #hate #i #like

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#depends #energy #inexpensive #northwest #our

We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#continue #dams #depend #energy #fight

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#controlled #corporation #farmers #golden #i

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.' ↗

— Luke Scott

#atlantic #because #caribbean #destiny #freedom

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#contrive #fishing #good #immense #indians

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny. ↗

— Donald Freed

#destiny #east #free #free markets #future

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead. ↗

— David R. Brower

#away #bubbling #gave #instead #may

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific! ↗

— Edward Koch

#beat #city #everywhere #got #new