Quotes about ocean
ocean pebbles affected
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble. Blaise Pascal
ocean wire wish
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath. Luther Burbank
ocean ignorance knowledge
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. John Archibald Wheeler
ocean impact trying
The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change. Enric Sala
ocean book sea
What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.
ocean marine world
What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.
ocean islands algae
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.
ocean writing frustrated
I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.
ocean deposits overfishing
The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.
ocean quality superstitions
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. James F. Cooper
ocean independent army
However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans. James Connolly
ocean ambition roots
Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions. Orison Swett Marden
ocean brain sitting
Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement. Oliver Sacks
ocean towns sides
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? O. Henry
ocean rain kissing
If rain drops were kisses, I'd send you showers. If hugs were seas, I'd send you oceans. And if love was a person I'd send you me! Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
ocean water swim
Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment. Emily Giffin
ocean roll wash
The ocean and I have many pebblesTo find and wash off and roll into shape. William Stafford
ocean moving sunset
When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life. Nhat Hanh
ocean want drowning
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. Jodi Picoult
ocean silence arms
Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.
ocean son asking
Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup
ocean dark shining
Somewhat of goodness, something true From sun and spirit shining through All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, Attests the presence everywhere Of love and providential care. John Greenleaf Whittier
ocean blessing desert
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. John Green
ocean eye cutting
She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space or on the surface of the ocean, just the two of them alone. Cassandra Clare
ocean thinking long
You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria. Kim Basinger
ocean
Ive always been drawn to the ocean. Kenny Chesney
ocean heart years
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia? Jules Verne
ocean hearing effects
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music. Judd Nelson
ocean sea ships
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. Ovid
ocean swimming balance
I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off. Marisa Miller
ocean moon faces
I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. Pat Conroy
ocean unity trying
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean. Ken Wilber
ocean surfing get-better
Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. Kelly Slater