Ocean Life Quotes

I definitely secretly dream of being a mermaid.

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

And the new day was a great big fish.

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.

I like underwater life.

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?

The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.

What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.

I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.

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