1,481 Quotes About Ocean


  • Author James Garner
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    We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

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  • Author Jay Griffiths
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    Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

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  • Author Jeff Goodell
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    Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

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  • Author Jeff Goodell
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    Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

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  • Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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    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.

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