Quotes About Marine

Finner, humpback, and huge blue whales, some of them a hundred feet long

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet's oceans would be infinitely poorer places.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I don't say every country has to leave the euro... But we have to leave the possibility if a country wants to leave.

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

After my time in the Marine Corps with 'don't ask, don't tell,' I didn't want to hide any more.

We went out and tagged 17 sharks and watched where they went. The data was amazing.

Experiments in isolation by the U.S. Marine Corps, Dr. John Lilly and others — and the records of shipwrecked sailors, as summarized by Lilly in Simulations of God — show that only a few hours of pure isolation may be necessary before hallucinations begin. These hallucinations, like those of psychedelic drugs, indicate the breaking down of previous imprints and the onset of vulnerability to new imprints.

KRULAK and Dyer wrote the first textbook for Marine helicopter pilots and war planners. Usually doctrine and tactics are developed after a weapon is available, but Krulak believed that doctrine should drive, not follow, the development of the helicopter. He

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

I like underwater life.

The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea.

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

I want to do everything I can in my own life to protect and preserve the ocean.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.