Brain Quote by Daniel Dennett

“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home…

— Daniel Dennett

“Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide…

— John Steinbeck

“Said the Hoopoe: 'O ignorant of the sea, don't you know that it is full of crocodiles and other dangerous creatures? Sometimes its water…

— Farid ud-Din Attar

“Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

— Bernard Moitessier

“I remember a biology lab in which we observed a spear-headed water worm. Like a starfish, it could grow back anything we razored off…

— Kenji Yoshino

Sometimes a fish breaches the surface when it feels another fish underneath it. They swim like a flying fish and end up several metres…

— Enrico Gennari

“I REMEMBER the day the Aleut ship came to our island. At first it seemed like a small shell afloat on the sea. Then…

— Scott O'Dell

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break…

— John Steinbeck

“This was the southern sea. The colors that fade when coral is drawn out of its element were garishly bright here, intricate and lovely…

— Henry Kuttner

It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I…

— Nick Sagan