Quotes About Ocean

If I choose a holiday destination, it would be a beach.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Often, a seemingly clear clean beach has a huge amount of hidden litter.

A single and same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and same Ocean for all the drops, a single clamour of Being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop and each voice has reached the state of excess -- in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

A single and the same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and the same ocean for all the drops, a single clamor of being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop, and each voice has reached the state of excess - in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore.

I've actually felt sad for myself, picturing my slim, naked, pale body, floating just beneath the current, a colony of snails attached to one bare leg, my hair trailing like seaweed until I reach the ocean and drift down down down to the bottom, my waterlogged flesh peeling off in soft streaks, me slowly disappearing into the current like a watercolor until just the bones are left.

The day after Independence Day, the sulfur from the fireworks mingling with the ocean salt - summer.

I couldn't help but reflect on the significance of the location favored by Plato. I had considered other possibilities, as readers of my previous books know, but I had to admit that an immense island lying far to the west of Europe across the Atlantic Ocean does sound a lot like America.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

I don't know why the water and the sky scare me. I wonder if it is because here at the ocean there is no place to hide.

Washaway Beach, a spot on the Washington Coast known for its rapidly eroding beach, where ghost cabins and trailers hang over the swirling ocean and surfers ride the gray waves in the distance.

Her eyes were the color of the sea if the sea were perfect.

Im not the worlds greatest sea food chef, I just like fresh fish.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.

The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Most of the planet is covered with water, so there must be a clue to its worth in that fact.

I might just paddle out to hang out, and if I get a wave, I'd do it, but if I don't, it's still worth it.

The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.

As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?