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Sea Quotes by Rachel Carson
- If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write…
- It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that…
- Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
- The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.…
- The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
- The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the…
- Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,…
- For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
- In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead…
- And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate…
- Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
- The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
- To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving…
More Sea Quotes
- On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a… — John James Audubon
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer,… — Henry Adams
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore