Jetty Quotes

• My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

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  Vik Muniz

  Believe   Book   Jetty  

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• Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

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  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean   Jetty   Natural  

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• I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

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  Wilbur Smith

  Beach   Hunting   Islands  

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• Universe is a giant wave and mankind needs a giant breakwater: The science! It is the best jetty we ever have!

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  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science   Jetty   Giants  

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• Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.

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  Frank Smith

  Home   Office   People  

  Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.108, Routledge

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• Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

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  Ralph Steadman

  Jetty   Rotten   Privilege  

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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