Jules Verne Quotes

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

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?

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 ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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

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

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

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

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.

A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries.

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.

I love the sea.

The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

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.

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

There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.

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

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.