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Tim Winton Quotes about Nature

All Tim Winton Quotes Art Beach Challenges Giving Nature quotes Past Sports Surfing Water Writing

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

Beach, Nature, Sea

Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.6, Penguin UK

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

Nature, Ocean, Unexpected

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

Nature, Sea, Relief

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.

Nature, Sea, Doe

Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

Beach, Nature, People

Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.66, Penguin UK

Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that walking on a beach at low tide is to be looking for death, or at least anticipating it. You will only find the dead, the spilled and the cast-off. Things torn free of their life or their place.

Beach, Nature, Believe

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

Spiritual, Nature, Sea

Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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