Quotes About Ocean

The Great Barrier Reef extends, discontinuously, for more than fifteen hundred miles, and in some places it is five hundred feet thick. By the scale of reefs, the pyramids at Giza are kiddie blocks. The way corals

a third of them to be in danger of extinction, largely as a result of rising ocean temperatures.

Ocean acidification is sometimes referred to as global warming's "equally evil twin.

Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed, and they remained in that state for at least half a million, and perhaps as many as several million, years. (The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")

Coral sex is a rare and amazing sight.

Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed

Ocean acidification played a role in at least two of the Big Five extinctions (the end-Permian and the end-Triassic) and quite possibly it was a major factor in a third (the end-Cretaceous).

Under what's known as a "business as usual" emissions scenario, surface ocean pH will fall to 8.0 by the middle of this century, and it will drop to 7.8 by the century's end. At that point, the oceans will be 150 percent more acidic than they were at the start of the industrial revolution.*

for Angie time was as big and round as the sky, and to try to make sense out of it was like trying to make sense of music and God and why the ocean was deep.

The sadness that rose and fell in me was like the tides.

The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything...in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea.

Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Mais, vrai, j'ai trop pleuré ! Les Aubes sont navrantes. Toute lune est atroce et tout soliel amer: L'âcre amour m'a gonflé de torpeurs enivrantes. Ô que ma quille éclate ! Ô que j'aille à la mer!

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

En alta mar el aire era fresco, las heridas cicatrizaban antes, y el silencio se tornaba lo bastante intenso como para hacer soportables las preguntas sin respuesta y justificar los propios silencios.

The very best method (not practical in most areas) is to cook the cod in clear sea water, adding an extra portion of salt.

Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.

The water in 'Life of Pi' is very realistic.

Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.

Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Our seas do have fish in them. We have to change our eating habits, the type of fish we tend to go for. Pollack is fine, that type of thing.

Who doesn't want that salty beach hair?

They passed it late in the afternoon, their single sail stretched to bursting, clinker-built hull heeling well over, bow slicing up a column of spray that salted mouths, eyes and bodies.