To me, the sea is like a person-like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there. – Gertrude Ederle
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
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
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. – Loren Eiseley
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales. – Sir Alister Hardy
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
The sea! the sea! the open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! – Bryan W. Procter
It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world – it’s the American way of looking at things. – Henry Miller
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans – Kahlil Gibran
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean. – James Cameron
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. – Werner Herzog
I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again. – Lauren DeStefano
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. – H. P. Lovecraft
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. – Wyland
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
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. – Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born missionary.
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. – Drew Barrymore
After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. – Pam Shaw
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