Age Quote by Charles Lyell

It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.

— Christopher Columbus

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do…

— Roderick Murchison

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time,…

— Sylvia Earle

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a…

— John L. Culliney

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…

— Jacob Burckhardt

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry…

— Karel Capek

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic]…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

— Greg Iles

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

— Anne Stevenson

“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled we know…

— Anonymous

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin