Oceans Quotes

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Ocean separates lands, not souls..”
― Munia Khan

“she's got
oceans
tucked away
in her hair

poems swim
under her skin.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

“Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Often times, a person will think they know you by piecing together tiny facts and arranging those pieces into a puzzle that makes sense to them. If we don't know ourselves very well, we'll mistakenly believe them, and drift toward where they tell us to swim, only to drown in our own confusion.
Here's the truth: it's important to take the necessary steps to find out who you are. Because you hold endless depths below the surface of a few facts and pieces and past decisions. You aren't only the ripples others can see. You are made of oceans.”
― Victoria Erickson

“You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.”
― Ian Rankin, Blood Hunt

“I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

“The coast is a transition zone, always changing. It keeps on changing its dynamics, perpetually, in both space and time.”
― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea

“Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something,”
― Sylvia Earle

“The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on Earth, and perhaps his last chance to prove himself a rational species.”
― John L. Culliney

“Land and sea.
We may think of them as opposites; as complements. But there is a difference in how we think of them; the sea, and the land.
If we are walking around in a forest, a meadow or a town, we see our surroundings as being made up of individual elements. There are many different kinds of trees in varying sizes, those buildings, these streets. The meadow, the flowers, the bushes. Our gaze lingers on details, and if we are standing in a forest in the autumn, we become tongue-tied if we try to describe the richness around us. All this exists on land.
But the sea. The sea is something completely different. The sea is one.
We may note the shifting moods of the sea. What the sea looks like when the wind is blowing, how the sea plays with the light, how it rises and falls. But still it is always the sea we are talking about. We have given different parts of the sea different names for navigation and identification, but if we are standing before the sea, there is only one whole. The Sea.
If we are taken so far out in a small boat that no land is visible in any direction, we may catch sight of the sea. It is not a pleasant experience. The sea is a god, an unseeing, unhearing deity that does not even know we exist. We mean less than a grain of sand on an elephant's back, and if the sea wants us, it will take us. That's just the way it is. The sea knows no limits, makes no concessions. It has given us everything and it can take everything away from us.
To other gods we send our prayer: Protect us from the sea.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor

“As the river enters into the ocean,
so my heart touches Thee.”
― Kabir, Songs of Kabir

“Deep sea rays use their electro-receptive sense to find prey under the seabed sand and mud.Laura also loves to explore things that are hidden, most often hidden meanings.”
― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea

“With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...”
― GarciLaso De la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One

“The oceans never stop. They know no beginning or end. The wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else, returning to fling itself at the island, to make a point which is lost on Tom.”
― M.L. Stedman

“In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950 and 2003 declared that if current trends of fishing and pollution continue, every fishery in the world's oceans will collapse by 2048...The oceans as an ecosystem would completely collapse.”
― Peter Heller, The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals

“Echinoderms have hard plates of calcite in their skin for protection, which Laura wishes she could have. Instead she will have to continue to develop strength of character.”
― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea

“Feather stars have many feather-like arms, which have bristles. Laura no longer feels she has bristles. Hers have dissolved when she faced her innermost feelings.”
― Sally Ann Hunter, Transfigured Sea

“Sand, leads me to the shores of new discoveries.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The oceans spawned life. Man just added plastic so that the life could come gift wrapped.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Maybe it's time that we started to farm plastic because it's already in the food chain.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Water will always flow with the current.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Sarah rotated her chair and glanced out her office window at the gray afternoon sky. “People who love the ocean often ask me what they can do to save it,” she said.
“And what do you tell them?”
She swiveled to face me. “Eat sustainably caught seafood. Ask where your seafood comes from and support people who are doing the right thing. And you will bite by bite change the world.”
― Brooke Bessesen, Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez

“The Watery Cosmos by Stewart Stafford

O realm of Poseidon,
Dura Mater of all hidden -
Salty soup of subtle plankton,
And breaching whales unbidden.

O friendly ocean,
Looking glass of sky steep -
Shooting stars bioluminescent
Whirlpool galaxies of the deep.

This savage playground,
Cradling hurricane fury,
The birthing pool of the living,
A submerged mass cemetery.

As light fades fast above,
So a lunar-dark seabed rears up,
Slowly enveloping all and sundry,
Surface in a seahorse stirrup.

Seeds from the Amazon,
Passengers of the Atlantic Conveyor,
Nestling on English coasts
Gifts of an aquatic purveyor.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The forests, oceans, rivers, mountains, caves, and stars are the only temples you will need.”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“Only the continued attention of a concerned public, plus genuine scientific research into the biology and natural history of these remarkable animals, will ensure that our children and grandchildren will be able to see for themselves the largest animals to have ever lived on earth. Stay informed, eat seafood responsibly, speak out, and support genuine marine biological research. If you enjoy the offshore environment, then act to protect it. Today we are the stewards of our environment, and if we lose these precious ocean resources through our ignorance, greed, or indifference, we will have caused an immeasurable loss to future generations of humanity.”
― Noble S. Proctor, A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish, and Other Sea Life

“The world's oceans are not only alive with life, but they are also alive with life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“And he said...

...sadness will fill the oceans with salted tears.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The sudden change in the course of her heart made Raylina wonder how quickly one’s heart changes from hating someone to liking them. How we all are solely driven by waves of emotions.”
― Meera Vyas, Śirā Ragata and the Abandoned Child