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...Excerpt: In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirlywhirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the ...

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...ime, O my Best Be- loved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the ...

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...work with the Minnesota Literacy Council, I was given a reading entitled "Starfish," as a thank you. lt not only changed my attitude about my contri... ...s running across the sand rhythmically bending down to pick up a stranded starfish and throw it far into the sea. The old man gazed in wonder as the... ...old man gazed in wonder as the young soul again and again threw the small starfish from the sand to the water. The old man approached him and asked... ...g what seemed a waste of time. The young man explained that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun. "But there must be thous... ...ning sun. "But there must be thousands of miles of beach and millions of starfish. How can your effort make any differ, ence?" The young man looke... ...ur effort make any differ, ence?" The young man looked down at the small starfish in his hand and as he threw it to safety in the sea said, "It ma...

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...rry, thinking I’d remember all, the prices of the traders, the baskets of starfish, the white parrot; I’ll remember his voice, his feet in the dust,...

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...rry, thinking I’d remember all, the prices of the traders, the baskets of starfish, the white parrot; I’ll remember his voice, his feet in the dust,...

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...egenerate their organic matter back into their environment. They are eaten by starfish and other predators like sea worms… creating a dynamic balan...

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...sh of winged creatures, and no less so at the wonder- ful sea-anemones and starfish in the pools, where long stream- ers of weed of beautiful colours ...

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... means of art. Science writes of the world as if with the cold finger of a starfish; it is all true; but what is it when compared to the reality of wh...

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...weed, now it was a group of gulls clamoring over a dead fish, now a purple starfish, now a breaker of un- usual size. Her splendid vitality carried he...

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...t feel pain, nor the lower animals; it’s possible that such animals as the starfish and crayfish do not feel pain at all. Then with men, the more inte...

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...the depth of more than 1,000 yards. Then there were little kingfishers and starfish studding the soil. But where life abounded most was in the air. Th...

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...nd that, and finally washed in by the great Anti-Imperialist flood, like a starfish rolling up a beach. My feminist views had earnt the mistrust of th...

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...oaded ourselves with things that we thought curious, and put some stranded starfish carefully back into the water I hardly know enough of the race at ...

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...ur keep for a year,’ moaned Henry, as he sighed over the long limbs of the starfish-like fracture. ‘Well, I will give up anything you like, if you wil...

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..., blue, scarlet, green, and white! the little blue fishes, the bright blue starfish, the little land- crabs walking away with other people’s shells. B...

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... quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit the waves, starfish from the sea, and creatures invisible to the eye— in one word, lif... ... quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit the waves, starfish from the sea, and creatures invisible to the eye—in one word, life...

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...ed. Clack moved. He settled. He Clacked and wisecracked. He told the local starfish that they were too pointy headed to have any sense. He clipped the...

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...ed. Clack moved. He settled. He Clacked and wisecracked. He told the local starfish that they were too pointy headed to have any sense. He clipped the...