Marshall McLuhan Quotes

A fish has no concept of water.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

The fish will be the last to discover water.

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.

‎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.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.