Chasms Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we…

— Anonymous

The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of…

— Emily Carr

“The one we call Earth formed in a kind of Goldilocks zone around the Sun, where oceans remain largely in liquid form.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no…

— Rachel Carson

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

— Nhat Hanh

The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust

— Richard Greenberg

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

— Sylvia Earle

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.

— Sylvia Earle

As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will…

— John Owen

Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize…

— Frederick Lenz

No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our…

— Fabien Cousteau

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

— Lucretius