There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch,… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and listen to the ocean. I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“Her father had once told her that water has a memory; that every rock, every stone, every grain of muddy sediment leaves… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
I took Kira to a nice dinner at a place called Moonshadows in Malibu, which is by the ocean, and I organized… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
The fact that we're all hyphenating our names suggests that we are afraid of being assimilated. I was talking on the BBC… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean.… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided,… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God,… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean.… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom… — Alister Hardy Copy Share Image
Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
There's a really wonderful book called "Man Is Not Alone" by Abraham Joshua Heschel, which makes the case that everybody is religious.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I would love to be able to swim in the ocean in Malibu. But that is asking for a bikini shot. That's… — Mary-Kate Olsen Copy Share Image
“The ocean is scary . . . but it is beautiful,” he says into my ear. He clearly sees something I’m not… — Cassie Mae Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then… — Susan Casey Copy Share Image
Tied to consciousness are all positive qualities, so that ocean within is an ocean of unbounded intelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness, unbounded… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Shangri-La is one of the few studios in which you can sit in the control room and open a window behind you.… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to… — William James Copy Share Image
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting. Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests, Of monsters in the ocean.… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
![“The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/08e/edward-gibbon-710_arms_the-dark-cloud-which-had-been-cleared-by_1084745.jpg)
![“[Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade is all about redistribution of wealth in a global basis - taking money out of this country and giving it to third-world countries on the other end of the ocean. And…” quote by Rafael Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d23/rafael-cruz-12239_able_barack-obama-for-example-he-has-not-give_2841968.jpg)
![“Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a…” quote by Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f93/joan-didion-497_age_despite-our-preparation-indeed-despite-o_1987477.jpg)
![“[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and fall of all of it, the incoming and the outgoing, the infinite procession of life. And the ocean…” quote by Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f8d/susan-casey-49814_fall_the-waves-move-across-a-faint-horizon-th_1792664.jpg)
