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Quotes About Ocean

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
~ James Cameron
I had gone to school to study marine biology.
~ Skeet Ulrich
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
~ Edith Widder
I've been stung by a jellyfish.
~ Lights
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.
~ Brian Skerry
I love submarine movies.
~ Kevin Macdonald
The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.
~ Kevin Macdonald
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
~ George Smoot
The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.
~ Peter Middlebrook
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
~ Robert Gottlieb
For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean
~ Tupac Shakur
E subito riprende il viaggio come Dopo il naufragio un superstite Lupo di mare
~ Unknown
Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.
~ Unknown
Later studies estimated that at least 6.4 Mt of plastic litter enters the oceans every year; that some 8 million pieces are discarded every day; that the floating plastic debris averages more than 13 000 pieces per km2 of ocean surface; and that some 60% of all marine litter stems from shoreline activities
~ Vaclav Smil
Quien ve el mar siente miedo, pero también una atracción invencible, la ansiedad de conocer lo que esconde su interminable vastedad.
~ Unknown
El mar, en cambio, es el espejo de nuestros pensamientos, y por desgracia de los más profundos y melancólicos. Refleja aquello que hay oculto en las profundidades de nuestro espíritu, nuestros miedos inconfesados; hasta el rostro de la muerte se trasluce bajo la superficie líquida y cambiante, detrás del horizonte que huye cada vez más lejos, que no se deja nunca alcanzar.
~ Unknown
Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.
~ Van Morrison
I run to the water's edge and the cold ocean licks my toes. Without touching my face I can feel that it's wet with fog and tears and sweat. I stand there, on the cusp of the ocean and listen to its loud inhale. And then it recedes and takes everything from my childhood with it the porcelain dolls, the tap-dancing shoes, the concert ticket stubs, the tiny trophies, and the long, long swing.
~ Vendela Vida
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.
~ Vera Nazarian
Where the surf meets the shore – lots of neat things can happen there.
~ Vernor Vinge
And let the clean space shine in the hands of its captor the slow, elegant, daily drinker of the waves.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
The sea seems bound to the deep abyss, crucified, staring at the high heavens, about to escape, violent, bellowing, nailed to its black bed.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin." Joanna about Ben
~ Unknown
The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.
~ Hafez