Quotes About Ocean

There is grief below grief, she soon learned, just as there are strata below strata in the ocean floor—and even more strata below that, if one keeps digging.

Upanishads suggests: "People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate—and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.

I'm glad you don't get seasick," he said. "I'm going to take you sailing." "Does a boat come with your cousin's house?" Cat asked, wrapping up the lettuce in a damp dish towel and putting it in the refrigerator. "No. I come with the boat.

He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.

In April, you know, it's simply a mass of flowers. And then there's the sea. You must wear white. You'll fit in very well. There are several portraits of you there.

Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see.

She was a barkentine—three masts

wave-tossed cockleshells, and, finally, we've

as nowhere else on earth, the sea girdles the globe

Whales, too, seemed everywhere. They surfaced on all sides, sometimes frighteningly close

The waves thus produced have become legendary among seafaring men. They are called Cape Horn Rollers

precious little had been learned about conditions in these unfrequented waters.

The animal—a sea leopard—sprang out of the water and came after him

The sight . . . is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about death, peril and shipwreck.

The rollers that raced shoreward were perhaps 40 feet high, maybe more.

her hull was altogether too rounded for most of those on board her.

The trip across the Atlantic took more than two months.

January 25, and to McNeish it was a "proper sea fog," indicating the presence of the ice-free ocean nearby.

Then, on March 9, they felt the swell—the undeniable, unmistakable rise and fall of the ocean.

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

several men had strongly urged Shackleton to risk this one desperate dash back to Ocean Camp

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The results are impressive.

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The

It was as if they had suddenly emerged into infinity. They had an ocean to themselves, a desolate, hostile vastness. Shackleton thought of the lines of Coleridge: Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea.