Ocean Mystery Quotes

The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.

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

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.

I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

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

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.