Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth. – Heinrich Zimmer
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. – Werner Herzog
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean. – Beyonce Knowles
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t. – Christopher Paolini
The sea lives in every one of us – Wyland
Ever since I was a child I’ve felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams-I love to jump in and swim around. But it’s the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace. – Susan Rockefeller
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. – John Joly
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself. – Rachel Carson
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world – it’s the American way of looking at things. – Henry Miller
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim-the rocks-the motion of the waves-the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there? – Walt Whitman
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. – Herman Melville
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars. – Thomas Traherne
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere – without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet’s future. – Fred Krupp
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. -John Kenneth Galbraith
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. – Dave Barry
If you like to eat seafood or swim in the ocean, it’s time to get involved. – Julie Evans-Brumm
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