Quotes about ocean
ocean sea purpose
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. Thomas Huxley
ocean land generations
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
ocean character ice
When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. Thomas Dolby
ocean iron feet
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace. Robert Montgomery
ocean air earth
Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.
ocean space detached
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. Walt Whitman
ocean sleep storm
I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
ocean sail
Come, my love, we have oceans to sail. Saul Williams
ocean eye blue
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves. Sarah Dessen
ocean oysters what-if
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor? Robin McKinley
ocean hockey animal
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. Robert T. Bakker
ocean sky earth
Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here
ocean sunshine land
Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever Satish Kumar
ocean sadness tears
I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide. Sarah McLachlan
ocean legs giants
Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean. Sara Paxton
ocean ships stuck
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ocean forever soul
Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. Robert Ballard
ocean years sea
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
ocean years doe
Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?
ocean-exploration southern captains
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
ocean years space
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
ocean america mars
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
ocean sea land
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
ocean writing ignorance
I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way. Rebecca Miller
ocean way biosphere
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
ocean talking names
The fact that we're all hyphenating our names suggests that we are afraid of being assimilated. I was talking on the BBC recently, and this woman introduced me as being "in favor of assimilation." I said, "I'm not in favor of assimilation." I am no more in favor of assimilation than I am in favor of the Pacific Ocean. Assimilation is not something to oppose or favor - it just happens. Richard Rodriguez
ocean moving thinking
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating. Richard Rohr
ocean quiet disappear
For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean Tupac Shakur
ocean humility tiny
The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone. Tracy Kidder
ocean swimming may
... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
ocean views rocks
Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from. Robinson Jeffers
ocean cutting land
That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing it into this ocean and no one would even notice. I feel that fear again, the fear of my own size. 'Right. So?' 'So? So everything I've ever worried about or said or done, how can it possibly matter?' He shakes his head. 'It doesn't.' 'Of course it does,' I say, 'All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter. Veronica Roth
ocean air years
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish. Rebecca Solnit