Areas Quote by Georges Cuvier

“All food available in the depths of the ocean is animal matter, and the food chain depends upon the constant rain of minuscule particles…

— Richard Ellis

Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been…

— Vladimir Belousov

The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per…

— David Grann

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

— Rudolf Carnap

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain…

— Henry David Thoreau

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place.…

— Henry David Thoreau

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Land and sea. We may think of them as opposites; as complements. But there is a difference in how we think of them; the…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth”

— Charles Dickens

“A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins. It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and…

— China Miéville

In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded…

— George Grey