Ocean Quotes - Page 27

• Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Sea, Freezing, Slowly But Surely

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Sea, Suffering, Picnics

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• Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

  Jeff Goodell

  Mean, Australia, Islands

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• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  Beck

  Sea, Ideas, Sides

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• I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

  Colleen Hoover

  Brave, Watches, Needs

  Colleen Hoover (2014). “Maybe Someday”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Bones, Dead Man

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• It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Suicide, Blessed, Science

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• If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

  Vanna Bonta

  Stars, Night, Color

  "Rewards of Passion: Sheer Poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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• Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Moving, Snakes

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• I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

  Trent Reznor

  Inspirational, Beach, Rocks

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• If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

  Henry Williamson

  Mother, Nurse, Water

  Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber

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• Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

  Dalai Lama

  Flower, Home, Rivers

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• The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Vacation, Ice Cream, Eggs

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• To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

  Marion Davies

  Venice, Parks, Youngsters

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• We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

  Edmund Muskie

  Cancer, Reality, Lakes

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• The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Years, Lasts, Energy

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• FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Country, Art, Stars

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe (2010). “Faust, Part I, Egmont and Hermann, Dorothea, Dr Faustus: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XIX (in 51 Volumes)”, p.209, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.116, Gospel Light Publications

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• Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Intelligent, Fishing, Weather

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• The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Bed, Movement, Earth

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• NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

  Robert Ballard

  Years, Space, Exploration

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• Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

  Robert Ballard

  America, United States, Mars

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• I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Men, Effort

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• When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Animal, Men, Giving

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• [T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Eye, Men

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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