Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea is the universal sewer. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. — William Cowper
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. — Edward Dahlberg
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys… — Matt Damon
This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own… — Artur Davis
With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. — Isak Dinesen
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a… — Tommy Douglas
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in… — Dick Van Dyke
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time.… — Freeman Dyson
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. — Sylvia Earle
Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home. — Sylvia Earle
No water, no life. No blue, no green. — Sylvia Earle
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. — Sylvia Earle
Health to the ocean means health for us. — Sylvia Earle
If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system. — Sylvia Earle
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. — Sylvia Earle
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return. — Sylvia Earle
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as… — Sylvia Earle
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial… — Sylvia Earle
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with… — Sylvia Earle
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean,… — Sylvia Earle

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