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Everyone, even Kai, looks like a tourist in a snorkel mask. And maybe we are all tourists in this underwater world—snorkels are our temporary visas, allowing us to visit this mysterious country for brief slices of time. - Dallas Woodburn 🐠

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Lava fountains top 700 feet in episode 16 of Kilauea eruption. 🌋

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No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides me; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of it surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garland crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the woodland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. - Mark Twain

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Surfing’s a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent.

- Haruki Murakami

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There is a small temple believed to be completely submerged about 100 feet offshore. It’s a shark heiau called Hale o Kapuni, dedicated to the shark god Kauhuhu. It is said that human remains were placed here for the sharks. Up until this day, a large shark population frequents this area. 🦈

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Only with a leaf

can I talk of the forest

-Visar Zhiti

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Summer is a season of opposites - a time where you want to do nothing and do everything... summer encourages us to savor our time, in whichever way we choose to.

- Allison Saft

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If Springtime crawls out of the wild mouths of flowers, then surely, Winter crawls out of mine.

- Cecilia Llompart

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You will never be too much fire for those meant to dance in your flames. 🔥

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The heart of man is very much like the sea — it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths it has its pearls too. - Vincent Van Gogh

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Hula is the language of the heart and, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people. – King David Kalakaua

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Rainbow Eucalyptus

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A mountaintop is not simply an elevation, but an island, a world within a world, a place out of place.

- Paul Gruchow

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Another way to look at meditation is to view the process of thinking itself as a waterfall, a continual cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantagepoint in a cave or depression in a rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

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She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

- Gloria Naylor 🌩️