William Wordsworth Quotes

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

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 think the concept of the sea is very important.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.

The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland.

On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.

I like underwater life.

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

I love the sea.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

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.

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

It’s all in there. We have harpooned every whale in the ocean.

The sea is a place where every day, half the population eats the other half.

If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.

I love the Gulf of Mexico.

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.