“Out to the open we go, to windy freedom and trackless ways. Light after light goes down. England and the Kingdom, Britain and the Empire, the old prides and the old devotions, glide abeam, astern, sink down upon the horizon, pass — pass. The river passes — London passes, England passes… out to the open sea.”

– TonoBungay, by H. G. Wells, 
whose ashes were scattered in the sea off the Isle of Wight