James A. Michener Quotes

The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.

I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

Antigua has 365 beaches, one for each day of the year, which I think is rather unique for such a small island.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting.

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.