“All that water and nothing can happen to it. The ocean is one thing people can’t harm. They can cross it in ships, or fly over it, but they can’t leave any lasting impression on it. They plow up land and the wind blows it away, they chop down forests and mountainsides erode, but they can’t do anything to the ocean. A big storm comes along and after it’s over, the water is the same again. It is the one savage and primitive thing left in nature.”
November Grass, written by Judy Van der Veer, first printing 1940.
The Coast Road 
“…nothing can happen it it…” –really? what about the floating plastic trash islands? Exxon? BP? Yes, something can happen to the Oceans–and apparently it’s not much on the positive side.
It is a beautiful cover.
Carolyn Shaw is the artist whose painting provides the cover for “November Grass.” You can learn more about Carolyn by visiting this website, I haven’t yet found if she has her own webiste: http://www.1870artcenter.org/MemberArtists/CarolynShaw/Spaces/index.html
the scene reminds me of the Santa Ynez Valley hills around Los Alamos along Highway 1.
Another great interpreter of those hills, trees, and light: Eyvind Earle.
I love the cover on that book, Anni. Of course, the author probably did not live long enough to see what we humans CAN do to the ocean.