Ocean Quotes

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People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.… — Sylvia Earle
It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call… — Ted Danson
My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea. — Lord Byron
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries ... — Jack Spicer
It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, ... Beach cleanups are something… — Ted Danson
Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea. — Donald Worster
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the… — Thomas Traherne
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life. — Tamora Pierce
Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things… — Ted Danson
The sea is not a bargain basement. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. — Edith Widder
A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through… — Diana Nyad
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception. — Edith Widder
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and… — Sylvia Earle
Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air. — Kary Mullis
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… — Arthur Conan Doyle
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci

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