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“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its…

— John Steinbeck

“The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the…

— James A. Michener

“There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we…

— James A. Michener

“Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean”

— Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov

“I smell the fresh sea air, and have never felt so at home in my life, out on the open waters, no land as…

— Naya S

“I live in an ocean of smell…”

— Rebecca Wells

“Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth.”

— Herman Melville

“But I can’t stop thinking about the ocean. It got in my head. The roar it makes—both peaceful and angry. The way its mood…

— Tarryn Fisher

“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its…

— Jack Kerouac

“With the smell so close, the ocean came into view only a few moments later, sometimes peeking between old brick buildings with bright blue…

— Shannon A. Thompson

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own…

— Jenny Shipley