Quotes About Ocean

All these waves are just so fun to ride and are normal to me.

I lived for big waves. It's where I felt comfortable and I could surf with ease. With smaller waves, it didn't feel as natural.

In my 20s, I was body surfing in Spain and the current dragged me out. I was waving at my friends who thought I was messing about, but I was drowning. I managed to swim in on my back but it scarred me.

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly over because we all go by plane these days, mostly. And we don't really see it as a place of industry anymore.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is way too rough, the issue of bycatch - 'plastic is too big, plastic is too small.'

We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

The way the clean-up system works is that we let the plastic come to us, using the ocean currents in our advantage.

We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

The ocean is my church and my playground, and it's where I love to be. It's where I belong.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

What makes Biarritz special, as far as I'm concerned, are the fantastic coastline, the beaches - such as the Cotes des Basques - and the sea.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species.

Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.