Quotes About Ocean

Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. —Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus

The chemistry of life is an aquatic chemistry. We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

If we want to understand other minds, the minds of cephalopods are the most other of all.

The mind evolved in the sea.

Cephalopods are evolution's only experiment in big brains outside of the vertebrates.

Technological culture has not destroyed the peoples of the Arctic Ocean. Believing that would be to think too highly of culture. It has simply acted as a catalyst, a cosmic model for the potential - which lies in every culture and every human being - to centre life around that particularly Western mixture of greed and naïveté. What they want to coerce is the Other, the vastness, that which surrounds human beings. It is the sea, the earth, the ice.

Ero un guscio. Vuoto. Accostami all'orecchio e senti il rombo lontano di un oceano fantasma.

apart from the grey smudge of a tanker or freighter on the horizon, the sea was empty.

The ocean depths say, ëIt is not in me,í while the sea declares, ëIt is not with me.í

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the LORD on high is majestic.

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,

The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.

The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.

You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.

a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.