Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

I could cut my leg off. I could cut my arm off. I could gouge an eye out. I'd still probably survive. But not…

— Philippe Cousteau, Jr

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

— Jean-Michel Cousteau

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals…

— Peter Benchley

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

— Joseph J. Romm

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

— Sylvia Earle

“Ocean separates lands, not souls..”

— Munia Khan

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and…

— Paul Watson

I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.

— Craig Sager

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts,…

— Brian Skerry

“He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.”

— William Faulkner

“My eyes remember oceans.”

— Samuel Hazo

“I will cross hundreds of seas and oceans without sinking to reach you, see your eyes and sink completely into their depths.”

— Franz Kafka

As the Navy gets smaller, the world's oceans are becoming more dangerous.

— Robert C. O'Brien

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed…

— Carsten Jensen