"Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!" - Jules Verne

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed.

"Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?"