Ocean Quotes

2174 quotes by 1339 authors

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… — Unknown Author
The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans… — Unknown Author
If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew. — Daniel Pauly
The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves ... — Robert Wyland
Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath ... — Robert Wyland
No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's… — Fabien Cousteau
Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire ... — Robert Wyland
Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top. — Jennifer Pahlka
When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a… — Thomas Dolby
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller… — Enric Sala
What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never… — Enric Sala
Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry
There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark. — Brian Skerry
Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis.… — Mike deGruy
It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other… — Roz Savage
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely… — Unknown Author
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What… — Buzz Aldrin
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing… — Unknown Author
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. — James Dwight Dana

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