Ocean Quotes - Page 31

• Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

  Bill McKibben

  Night, Sky, Secret

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

  William Bradford

  Father, Plymouth, Wilderness

  Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.23

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• Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Blessed, Home

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard”, p.10, Vintage

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• It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good.

  Tristan Thompson

  Kind, Baskets, Groove

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• I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.

  Morgan Ensberg

  Thinking, Missing

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• I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Goes On, Environment, Planets

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• I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

  Douglas Lockwood

  Power, Thinking, Vastness

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• Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Lying, Sides, Crosses

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Men, Cities, Earth

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• Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver's veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Heart, Air, Blood

  Stephen Harrigan (2015). “Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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• When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.

  Karel Appel

  Book, Space, Mirrors

  "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.

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• Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Night, Wind, Sheep

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Play, Imagination

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• Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

  Dido Armstrong

  Home, Watches, Gone

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• James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.

  Ann Wright

  Beach, Rhode Island, Islands

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• The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Beautiful, Christian, Integrity

  "Afterthoughts on Afterlife". "Instauration" Magazine, August 1980.

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Epic, Journey, Eight

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• If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.

  Bill Mollison

  Ifs And, Space, World

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

  Flora Thompson

  Art, Gains, Pot

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Fate, Truth Is, Guides

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• There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

  David Lynch

  Consciousness, Pure

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• This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

  Ben Okri

  People, Stories, Earth

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• The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

  Alan Watts

  Cosmos, Whole

  Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

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• To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Foundation, Life Is

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