Quotes About Ocean

The next time you spray on Chanel No. 5 (assuming you do), you may wish to reflect that you are dousing yourself in distillate of unseen sea monster.

It is often noted, for instance, that Shakespeare's plays are full of ocean metaphors ("take arms against a sea of troubles," "an ocean of salt tears," "wild sea of my conscience") and that every one of his plays has at least one reference to the sea in it somewhere.

The Seaman's Practice

Orange roughy, a sluggish but delicious ocean fish, were caught in vast numbers before marine biologists realized how desperately susceptible to extinction they were.

Many fishermen "fin" sharks—that is, slice their fins off, then dump them back into the water to die.

even a modest dilution of the ocean's salt content—from increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet, for instance—could disrupt the cycle disastrously. The

Even today our knowledge of the ocean floors remains remarkably low resolution.

We have better maps of Mars than we do of our own seabeds. At

If all the ice sheets melted, sea levels would rise by 60 metres.

ocean vents harbour some of the most extraordinary life on the planet.

A typical submersible costs about $25,000 a day to operate, so they are hardly dropped into the water on a whim, still less put to sea in the hope that they will randomly stumble on something of interest. It's rather as if our firsthand experience of the surface world were based on the work of five guys exploring on garden tractors after dark.

can take up to ten million years to clean an ocean—but if you are not in a hurry it is marvellously efficient. Perhaps

Before this dumping was halted in the 1990s, the United States had dumped many hundreds of thousands of drums into about fifty ocean sites—almost fifty thousand of them in the Fallarones alone.

Although the Spirit of St. Louis looked metallic, and was often described as such in newspaper reports, only the nose cowling was actually of metal. With only a thin layer of canvas between the pilot and the outside world, the Spirit of St. Louis was deafeningly noisy and unnervingly insubstantial. It would have been rather like crossing the ocean in a tent.

I also learned that about ten thousand containers fall off ships each year. Sometimes after a period of years the container doors pop open and the contents float to the surface.

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

seawater expands when it gets warmer.

seas getting warmer, they're also bifurcating—developing some places where the water has more oxygen and others where it has less oxygen.

This is the worst thing to happen to beaches since the Speedo.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking...

And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' But I'll know my song well before I start singin

And the words that are used For to get the ship confused Will not be understood as they're spoken. For the chains of the sea Will have busted in the night And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.

Oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door- Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow. Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore- You may not see me tomorrow.