Ocean Quotes - Page 34

• [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Ponds, Size

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

  Rachel Carson

  School, Autumn, Fire

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.

  Rachel Carson

  Stars, Home, Animal

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Fabric Of Life, Design, World

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

  Rachel Carson

  Swings, Sea, Land

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.

  Rachel Carson

  Water, Elements, World

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's very important where you live. Because where you live, the energies make it easier or more difficult to dream. In certain places dreams are very manifest and very strong. So you should always pick a place to live that's good to dream in. One of the best places to dream is by the ocean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Strong, Important

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• The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Tea, Trying, Spoons

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

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• Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

  Etty Hillesum

  Sailing, Desire, Safe

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.288, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

  Isadora Duncan

  Taken, Sea, Ideas

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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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• The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

  James Hervey

  Islands, Climate, Invasion

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90

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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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• Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the Atlantic Ocean famous for its wild horses. I realize that the concept of wild horses probably stirs romantic notions in many of you, but this is because you have never met any wild horses in person. In person, they are like enormous hooved rats. They amble up to your camp site, and their attitude is: We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Attitude, Fall

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• No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Mad, Battle

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.307, Velvet Element Books

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• At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

  Herman Melville

  Night, Anchors, Ice

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.101

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• The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.

  Richard Greenberg

  Way, Biosphere, Surface

  "A subsurface ocean may provide water and heat" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2002.

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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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• If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

  Morgan Freeman

  Sorry, Planets, Wells

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and Turning SIDEWAYS Into a Play". Press conference, collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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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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• The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go to this inexhaustible ocean with only a small cup and bring away only that small cup of bounty and blessing. Or, if you have faith enough, you can take a bucket and bring away a bucketful. It makes no difference to the ocean. Nor does it matter how often you go. Abundance is always there.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Blessing, Differences, Doe

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• The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.

  Erich Fromm

  Rain, Night, Animal

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, during her 39 years of service from 1882 to 1921.

  Paul Bartsch

  Years, Sea, Ships

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• We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

  Ovid

  Sea, Ships, Bark

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