Eddie Vedder Quotes

There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

The oceans have shrunk, until today both Europe and Asia border the United States almost as do Canada and Mexico.

Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

In Congress, I am focused on the effects of climate change, including ocean acidification and sea-level rise - both of which are threats to healthy oceans that sustain life on- and off-shore.

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.

I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

Never underestimate the power of the ocean.

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing spots. And so it's gone from an issue that only environmentalists cared about to an issue that almost everybody in the state of Hawaii cares about, because it's really affecting our quality of life.

Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.