89 Quotes About Oceans

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.

One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.

Look at the mountains. Look at the oceans! No one else can change the oceans into mountains and no one can change mountains into oceans, because the work of God’s hands is the greatest.

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,

Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Our planet has been misnamed; it is the ocean planet.

Some have the Pacific in their eyes, the Atlantic on their lips and the Arctic in their words. Some people are made out of oceans.

And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over.

I mean, have you ever imaginedthe ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something important, and the only way it can talkis by making waves crash, and we just lounge there, drenched in cocoa butter, on towels with crappy novels and volleyballs, sipping spritzers, as the ocean uses all its strength to repeatthe same warning over and over?(from the poem "The Berlin Mall")

Plenty of blanks in the world's charts. There will have to be a lot surveying before all of them are filled in.