Ry Cooder Quotes

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

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?

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 a mighty harmonist.

I really have a passion for the sea, so I think it's important that whatever I do, I want to be near the sea.

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

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.

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.

I like underwater life.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

I love the sea.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I never liked going in the ocean.

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.