129 quotes found
“at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved”
“Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean,...”
“Crossing the ocean is secondary, planning how to pass the tides is the goal.”
“She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.”
“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.”
“Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we ar...”
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.”
“I see an ocean thats spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.”
“She remembers sprinting over the thin after-waves that slid over each other like sheets of glass. When she ran with the waves it looked like she wasnt moving. When she ran against them it looked li...”
“...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...”
“We were right to come here, if only because the ocean reminded you that impossible things were possible. Miles and miles of the deepest waters that moved like clockwork were possible. Creatures lik...”
“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”
“I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.”
“I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of Ameri...”
“Isn't it crazy to think that we've explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of...”
“Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed ...”
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.”
