The gull sees farthest who sees highest.

-Bach, Richard
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

'To beginwith,' hesaid heavily,'you've gottounderstand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.'

-Bach, Richard
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'Sea Fever'.