Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea
Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
Animal protection is education to the humanity.
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.
Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
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