Quote by Charles C. Mann

“Columbus led wooden sailing ships across an ocean, seeking a new world. Today we sail with ships of metal across the cosmic ocean, seeking…

— Daniel Arenson

“under the same cross that Christopher Columbus’s three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.”

— Michael Baigent

“Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.”

— Anonymous

“XXII Taming the Oceans * Oceans crash incessantly on ragged coasts pass invisibly through earth and air And out again through the tiny rivers…

— Michael Bee

“The sea teaches the lesson every ecologist urges us to understand about the natural world: that it cares nothing for us, that it will…

— Philip Marsden

“As a species, we love to divide things up. We draw a straight line in a map between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans while…

— Matt Haig

“Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus…

— Cuthbert Soup

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

— John Guare

“Historically we’ve treated the ocean in 2 strange ways at the same time: a pantry and a toilet.”

— Steve Palumbi

“There are many so-called glorious and invincible ships now rotting beneath the oceans! Most of them – with high conceit – had thought that…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

— Sylvia Earle