Coast

Coast

A Coast, coastline or seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the Coastline paradox. A coastal zone is a region where interaction of the sea and land processes occurs. Both the terms coast and coastal are often used to describe a geographic location or region.

Quotes

• It is a costly thing living here to fight the erosion. The sea is constantly threatening to cut into the coastline and sweep all this away. Every year we have to haul stones up here to repair the damage and plug the holes. It's a full-time job.
  • Dermot Healy, John O'Mahony (2000). Let the west of the world go by, The Guardian (3 June 2000).

• The character of our coasts, remarkable in considerable parts of it for admitting no vessels of size to pass near the shores, would entitle us, in reason, to as broad a margin of protected navigation, as any nation whatever. Not proposing, however, at this time, and without a respectful and friendly communication with the Powers interested in this navigation, to fix on a distance to which we may ultimately insist on the right of protection, the President gives instructions to the officers, acting under this authority, to consider those heretofore given them as restrained for the present to the distance of one sea-league, or three geographical miles from the sea-shore. This distance can admit of no opposition as it is recognized by treaties between some of the Powers with whom we are connected in commerce and navigation, and is as little or less than is claimed by any of them on their own coasts.
  • Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state, letter to the French Minister, Edmond Charles Genêt, November 8, 1793.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 6, p. 440–41 (1895).

• The brilliance of Midwestern California, the California that is founded upon discontent, and the reason why so much technological innovation springs from the West Coast, is that having confronted the finitude of the coastline, technologists in Silicon Valley have shrunk the needed commodity—the future (thousands of miles of Zen pathway)—to the size of a fleck of gold dust, to a microchip.
  • Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013).

• A story I will tell you of the salty fisherman,
  Of all the little rivers and inlets of the coast,
  He seems to like Pender Harbour to bum around the most.
  • Source: The Pender Harbour Fisherman's Come All Ye song lyrics by PJ Thomas
  • C (apr97). Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics - The Pender Harbour Fisherman's Come All Ye (in english). Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
  • Notes: Pender Harbour is a part of the Sechelt Peninsula on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast.

• Growing up in such a stunning landscape is inevitably going to have an effect on you, whether you rebel or whether you embrace, because it's so striking. I lived on this rugged, rugged coastline with the North Sea hammering at the cliffs, and the weather changes literally every half hour. My parents met as rock climbers, so they're absolute outdoors fiends, and we were constantly up hills and under canvas and camping and tramping around. They're very fond memories and something I still love to do.
  • KT Tunstall, Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague (February 2006).