--- Henry Beston in The Outermost House (1929), quoted by Anneliese Burgess in Wat die water aan ons doen, Binne+Land, May 2026
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.
