Ocean Quotes - Page 35

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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Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Islands, Juan

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To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

Average, Sea, Land

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There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men, Sea, Bird

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Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.

Edward Forbes

Kingdoms, Empires, Aptitude

Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.3

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We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

James Garner

Moon, Sea, Exploration

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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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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Edmund Waller

Use, May, Abode

'Of a War with Spain' l. 25

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The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Robert Ballard

Museums, Sea, Land

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My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!

Robert Ballard

Moving, Moon, Technology

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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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You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.

Joseph P. Allen

Fire, Clouds, Views

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A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal - the ocean.

Laura Gilpin

Lying, Moving, Rivers

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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

Isaac Newton

Understanding, Shells, Stones

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We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Travel, Years

Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.174

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The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.

Frank Waters

Nature, Travel, Sea

Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

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I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements.

Eugenie Clark

Use, Movement, Diving

Eugenie Clark (1953). “Lady With a Spear”

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In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

William Beebe

Silly, Eye, Color

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... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.

William Beebe

Stars, Eye, Space

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...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.

Edward Forbes

Believe, Deep Water, Lines

Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56

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An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Jami Attenberg

Giants, Possibility

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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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Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

George Eliot

Men, Air, Feet

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.440, 谷月社

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