Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness… — Saint Augustine
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere… — Jeremy Rifkin
Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy… — Khabibullo Abdusamatov
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and… — Stephen Hawking
The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction. — Freeman Dyson
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests… — David Suzuki
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing… — David Attenborough
Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world's oceans to rise four and a half feet. The scientists say this can mean only… — Conan O'Brien
So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds… — Kenny Rogers
If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking. — John Mark McMillan
Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the… — Grant Morrison
Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever — Satish Kumar
It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the… — David Suzuki
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral… — Pope Benedict XVI
Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of… — Sylvia Earle
For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes… — Al Gore
Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really,… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or… — Sylvia Earle
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our… — Paul Keating
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything… — Tim Winton

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