Environment Quote by Richard Fortey

“The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall;…

— Dave Eggers

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

— Tim Winton

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets…

— Marsilio Ficino

“The cruelty of men had infected the land, and sea only swept in sharp waves to the shores.”

— Gayendra Abeywardane

“With so much utter insanity all about, a man had to keep a clear head. Clement reckoned a scientist could actually chart the course…

— Leon Uris

“Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again…

— Yukio Mishima

“Old ocean, the different species of fish that you nurture have not sworn brotherhood among themselves. Each species lives apart, on its own. The…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that.…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“These poor, plain men, dwellers upon the lonely sands of Hatteras, took their lives in their hands, and, at the most imminent risk crossed…

— Annual Report of the U.S. Life- Saving Service 1885

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that…

— Woodrow Wilson

“What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not…

— Sylvia Earle

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— Lord Chesterfield