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<div><div><p><b>"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
<br/>
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry</b></p><p>

Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944, pronounced Sant-Exoopairee), was a 
French writer and aviator.  He was born and brought up in Lyon, the third 
of five children.  After studying architecture, he began his military 
service in 1921 with the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs (a light cavalry regiment) 
and was sent to Strasbourg for pilot training.  The following year, having 
obtained his pilot's license, he was given the opportunity to transfer to the 
air force but, under pressure from his family, instead took an office job in 
Paris.  </p><p>

In 1926, he returned to the skies becoming one of the pioneers of the 
international postal service working the route between Toulouse and Dakar. 
</p><p>

In 1929, he published <i>Southern Mail</i> (Courrier Sud) and became director of 
an airfield in Morocco from where he flew the Casablanca-Dakar route.  
Shortly after, he moved to South America where he was appointed director of the 
Aeroposta Argentina Company. </p><p>

<i>Night Flight</i> (Vol de Nuit), the book that made his name, was published in 
1931.  Also in 1931, he married Consuelo Gómez Carillo. It was a stormy marriage most likely due to his frequent absences and many affairs. </p><p>

In December 1935, while attempting a flying speed record from Paris to Saigon, Saint Exupéry and his navigator, André Prévot, crashed in the 
Libyan desert.  According to his memoir, <i>Wind, Sand and Stars</i>, 
although both survived the landing they had little in the way of supplies and 
faced rapid dehydration.  By day three they were experiencing visual and 
auditory hallucinations and were so dehydrated they could not sweat.  On 
the fourth day they were found by a Bedouin who saved their lives.  Chapter 
2 of Saint Exupéry's fable, <i>The Little Prince</i> (1942), references this experience.</p><p>

Saint Exupéry continued to write and fly until 1940 when, following Germany's 
defeat of France, he and his wife moved to the USA.  A little over two 
years later, Saint Exupéry returned to Europe to fly with the Free French 
Forces.  At 43 he was considerably older than most pilots and suffered pain 
due to previous injuries.  His final assignment, on July 31 1944, was to 
collect intelligence on German troop movements in the Rhone River area.  He 
left from Corsica and was never seen again.</p><p>

In 1998, a fisherman found a bracelet south of Marseille which was positively 
identified as Saint Exupéry's.  In 2000, a diver found a plane in the same 
area which was confirmed to be his. In March 2008, the 64-year mystery was 
apparently resolved when 88-year-old Horst Rippert, a former German World War II 
fighter pilot (who had been tracked down by people researching the downed plane) 
stated that he had believed for some time that he shot down the French literary 
hero on July 31, 1944. Rippert says that, had he known who was in the plane, he 
would have held his fire: "He knew admirably how to describe the sky, the 
thoughts and feelings of pilots .... His work inspired many of us to take up our 
vocation." </p><p>


<b>More quotes by Antoine de Saint Exupéry</b>"A 
civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided 
for them." </p><p>

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there 
is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."</p><p>

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally 
unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."</p><p>

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of 
life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."</p><p>

"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
</p><p>

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for 
something other than itself."</p><p>

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at 
each other but in looking outward in the same direction."</p><p>

"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. 
Only the unknown frightens men."</p><p>

"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no 
tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up." </p><p>

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do 
something." </p><p>

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

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        "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
        - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

        Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944, pronounced Sant-Exoopairee), was a French writer and aviator. He was born and brought up in Lyon, the third of five children. After studying architecture, he began his military service in 1921 with the 2nd Regiment of Chasseurs (a light cavalry regiment) and was sent to Strasbourg for pilot training. The following year, having obtained his pilot's license, he was given the opportunity to transfer to the air force but, under pressure from his family, instead took an office job in Paris.

        In 1926, he returned to the skies becoming one of the pioneers of the international postal service working the route between Toulouse and Dakar.

        In 1929, he published Southern Mail (Courrier Sud) and became director of an airfield in Morocco from where he flew the Casablanca-Dakar route. Shortly after, he moved to South America where he was appointed director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company.

        Night Flight (Vol de Nuit), the book that made his name, was published in 1931. Also in 1931, he married Consuelo Gómez Carillo. It was a stormy marriage most likely due to his frequent absences and many affairs.

        In December 1935, while attempting a flying speed record from Paris to Saigon, Saint Exupéry and his navigator, André Prévot, crashed in the Libyan desert. According to his memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars, although both survived the landing they had little in the way of supplies and faced rapid dehydration. By day three they were experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations and were so dehydrated they could not sweat. On the fourth day they were found by a Bedouin who saved their lives. Chapter 2 of Saint Exupéry's fable, The Little Prince (1942), references this experience.

        Saint Exupéry continued to write and fly until 1940 when, following Germany's defeat of France, he and his wife moved to the USA. A little over two years later, Saint Exupéry returned to Europe to fly with the Free French Forces. At 43 he was considerably older than most pilots and suffered pain due to previous injuries. His final assignment, on July 31 1944, was to collect intelligence on German troop movements in the Rhone River area. He left from Corsica and was never seen again.

        In 1998, a fisherman found a bracelet south of Marseille which was positively identified as Saint Exupéry's. In 2000, a diver found a plane in the same area which was confirmed to be his. In March 2008, the 64-year mystery was apparently resolved when 88-year-old Horst Rippert, a former German World War II fighter pilot (who had been tracked down by people researching the downed plane) stated that he had believed for some time that he shot down the French literary hero on July 31, 1944. Rippert says that, had he known who was in the plane, he would have held his fire: "He knew admirably how to describe the sky, the thoughts and feelings of pilots .... His work inspired many of us to take up our vocation."


        More quotes by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

        "A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."

        "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

        "A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

        "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

        "I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."

        "Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

        "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."

        "Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."

        "One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."

        "The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

        "War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people... but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
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	<p><strong>Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? Apocryphal? Anonymous?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Dear Quote Investigator:</strong> The French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was best known internationally as the author of “Le Petit Prince” (“The Little Prince”). Many self-help guides and books about management now contain a saying about motivation and organization that often has been attributed to Saint-Exupéry. Here are three versions:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you wish to build a ship, do not divide the men into teams and send them to the forest to cut wood. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless sea.</p>
<p>If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.</p>
<p>If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.</p></blockquote>
<p>I have not been able to find a good citation, and I also have been unable to ascertain the original French text. Would you please explore this topic?</p>
<p><strong>Quote Investigator:</strong> Researchers have not found a close match for this statement in the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. However, there was a very interesting thematic match in the 1948 book “Citadelle” (“The Wisdom of the Sands”). In section LXXV Saint-Exupéry wrote about an individual who wished to build a boat. He imparted to a group of people a love of sailing, and the group spontaneously split to perform appropriate subtasks:<a href="#f+11852+1+1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>1959, Title: Oeuvres, Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Work: Citadelle, Section: LXXV (75) Quote Page 687, Publisher: Gallimard, Paris, France. (Reprint of text first published in 1948) (Verified … <a href="#f+11852+1+1">Continue reading</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Celui-là tissera des toiles, l’autre dans la forêt par l’éclair de sa hache couchera l’arbre. L’autre, encore, forgera des clous, et il en sera quelque part qui observeront les étoiles afin d’apprendre à gouverner. Et tous cependant ne seront qu’un. Créer le navire ce n’est point tisser les toiles, forger les clous, lire les astres, mais bien donner le goût de la mer qui est un, et à la lumière duquel il n’est plus rien qui soit contradictoire mais communauté dans l’amour.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here is one possible rendering of this text into English:</p>
<blockquote><p>One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>QI</strong> conjectures that this section of “Citadelle” inspired the construction of the modern quotation although one or more intermediate steps may have occurred. It was possible that someone read the section and created a paraphrase or commentary. The modern quotation might be based on this posited intermediate text. Saint-Exupéry himself may have written a text that was closer to the modern quotation although it has not been located.</p>
<p>Here are additional selected citations in chronological order.</p>
<p>In November 1999 a participant using the handle Benjamin A. Okopnik posted a message to a newsgroup called alt.callahans within the Usenet discussion system. The message included an instance of the saying ascribed to Exupéry, Boldface has been added to excerpts:<a href="#f+11852+1+2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>1999 November 30, Usenet Discussion Message, Newsgroups: alt.callahans, From: ben-fu…@AnythingButGeocities.com (Benjamin A. Okopnik), Subject: Re: Quaking on the edge of a dream, (Google … <a href="#f+11852+1+2">Continue reading</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea</strong>.– Antoine de Saint Exupery</p></blockquote>
<p>In 2000 a newspaper in Swan River, Manitoba printed a “Pastoral Message” that attributed an instance of the quotation to an unnamed religious leader from the distant past:<a href="#f+11852+1+3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> 2000 September 12, The Swan Valley Star and Times, Pastoral Message by Rev. David R. Johnson (Valley Evangelical Covenant Church), Quote Page B2, Column 4, Swan River, Manitoba. (NewspaperArchive)</p>
<blockquote><p>A Christian leader centuries ago wrote, <strong>“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>In 2004 a newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina printed an instance and gave credit to Saint-Exupéry:<a href="#f+11852+1+4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> 2004 August 13, The State, Edition: Final, Section: Sports, Article: Athens 2004: Teamwork, Quote Page C3, Columbia, South Carolina. (NewsBank Access World News)</p>
<blockquote><p>QUOTES ABOUT TEAMWORK</p>
<p><strong>“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”</strong> -Antoine de Saint-Exupery</p></blockquote>
<p>In 2010 a compilation titled “1001 Smartest Things Teachers Ever Said” was published, and an instance of the saying was included:<a href="#f+11852+1+5"><sup>[5]</sup></a> 2010, 1001 Smartest Things Teachers Ever Said, Edited by Randy Howe, Quote Page 51, Lyons Press: An Imprint of Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut. (Google Books Preview)</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>If you wish to build a ship, do not give directions and technical advice to others. Rather, show them the wonder and adventure of the open ocean.</strong><br />
—George Edwin Goodfellow, 2008 Rhode Island Teacher of the Year</p></blockquote>
<p>In conclusion, <strong>QI</strong> hypothesizes that the modern saying was derived from the passage written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the “Citadelle”. Perhaps someone constructed a paraphrase that was later reassigned directly to Saint-Exupéry. The first known instances of the English expression appeared relatively recently in the 1990s. Future researchers may discover some intermediate forms that reveal the evolution of the quotation.</p>
<p>(Great thanks to Kevin Kelly and I. Barry Goldberg whose inquiries led QI to formulate this question and perform this exploration. Kelly pointed to a blog post by Karl Dubost who identified the relevant passage within “Citadelle”. Many thanks to S. M. Colowick for suggesting the translation. All errors are the responsibility of QI.)</p>
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 Teach Them to Yearn for the Vast and Endless Sea

 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? Apocryphal? Anonymous?

 Dear Quote Investigator: The French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was best known internationally as the author of “Le Petit Prince” (“The Little Prince”). Many self-help guides and books about management now contain a saying about motivation and organization that often has been attributed to Saint-Exupéry. Here are three versions:

 If you wish to build a ship, do not divide the men into teams and send them to the forest to cut wood. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless sea.

 If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

 If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

 I have not been able to find a good citation, and I also have been unable to ascertain the original French text. Would you please explore this topic?

 Quote Investigator: Researchers have not found a close match for this statement in the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. However, there was a very interesting thematic match in the 1948 book “Citadelle” (“The Wisdom of the Sands”). In section LXXV Saint-Exupéry wrote about an individual who wished to build a boat. He imparted to a group of people a love of sailing, and the group spontaneously split to perform appropriate subtasks:[1] 1959, Title: Oeuvres, Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Work: Citadelle, Section: LXXV (75) Quote Page 687, Publisher: Gallimard, Paris, France. (Reprint of text first published in 1948) (Verified … Continue reading

 Celui-là tissera des toiles, l’autre dans la forêt par l’éclair de sa hache couchera l’arbre. L’autre, encore, forgera des clous, et il en sera quelque part qui observeront les étoiles afin d’apprendre à gouverner. Et tous cependant ne seront qu’un. Créer le navire ce n’est point tisser les toiles, forger les clous, lire les astres, mais bien donner le goût de la mer qui est un, et à la lumière duquel il n’est plus rien qui soit contradictoire mais communauté dans l’amour.

 Here is one possible rendering of this text into English:

 One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love.

 QI conjectures that this section of “Citadelle” inspired the construction of the modern quotation although one or more intermediate steps may have occurred. It was possible that someone read the section and created a paraphrase or commentary. The modern quotation might be based on this posited intermediate text. Saint-Exupéry himself may have written a text that was closer to the modern quotation although it has not been located.

 Here are additional selected citations in chronological order.

 In November 1999 a participant using the handle Benjamin A. Okopnik posted a message to a newsgroup called alt.callahans within the Usenet discussion system. The message included an instance of the saying ascribed to Exupéry, Boldface has been added to excerpts:[2] 1999 November 30, Usenet Discussion Message, Newsgroups: alt.callahans, From: ben-fu…@AnythingButGeocities.com (Benjamin A. Okopnik), Subject: Re: Quaking on the edge of a dream, (Google … Continue reading

 If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.– Antoine de Saint Exupery

 In 2000 a newspaper in Swan River, Manitoba printed a “Pastoral Message” that attributed an instance of the quotation to an unnamed religious leader from the distant past:[3] 2000 September 12, The Swan Valley Star and Times, Pastoral Message by Rev. David R. Johnson (Valley Evangelical Covenant Church), Quote Page B2, Column 4, Swan River, Manitoba. (NewspaperArchive)

 A Christian leader centuries ago wrote, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

 In 2004 a newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina printed an instance and gave credit to Saint-Exupéry:[4] 2004 August 13, The State, Edition: Final, Section: Sports, Article: Athens 2004: Teamwork, Quote Page C3, Columbia, South Carolina. (NewsBank Access World News)

 QUOTES ABOUT TEAMWORK

 “If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 In 2010 a compilation titled “1001 Smartest Things Teachers Ever Said” was published, and an instance of the saying was included:[5] 2010, 1001 Smartest Things Teachers Ever Said, Edited by Randy Howe, Quote Page 51, Lyons Press: An Imprint of Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut. (Google Books Preview)

 If you wish to build a ship, do not give directions and technical advice to others. Rather, show them the wonder and adventure of the open ocean.
 —George Edwin Goodfellow, 2008 Rhode Island Teacher of the Year

 In conclusion, QI hypothesizes that the modern saying was derived from the passage written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the “Citadelle”. Perhaps someone constructed a paraphrase that was later reassigned directly to Saint-Exupéry. The first known instances of the English expression appeared relatively recently in the 1990s. Future researchers may discover some intermediate forms that reveal the evolution of the quotation.

 (Great thanks to Kevin Kelly and I. Barry Goldberg whose inquiries led QI to formulate this question and perform this exploration. Kelly pointed to a blog post by Karl Dubost who identified the relevant passage within “Citadelle”. Many thanks to S. M. Colowick for suggesting the translation. All errors are the responsibility of QI.)

 References

 References
 ↑ 1 1959, Title: Oeuvres, Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Work: Citadelle, Section: LXXV (75) Quote Page 687, Publisher: Gallimard, Paris, France. (Reprint of text first published in 1948) (Verified on paper) 
 ↑ 2 1999 November 30, Usenet Discussion Message, Newsgroups: alt.callahans, From: ben-fu…@AnythingButGeocities.com (Benjamin A. Okopnik), Subject: Re: Quaking on the edge of a dream, (Google Groups; Accessed August 26, 2015) link
 ↑ 3 2000 September 12, The Swan Valley Star and Times, Pastoral Message by Rev. David R. Johnson (Valley Evangelical Covenant Church), Quote Page B2, Column 4, Swan River, Manitoba. (NewspaperArchive) 
 ↑ 4 2004 August 13, The State, Edition: Final, Section: Sports, Article: Athens 2004: Teamwork, Quote Page C3, Columbia, South Carolina. (NewsBank Access World News) 
 ↑ 5 2010, 1001 Smartest Things Teachers Ever Said, Edited by Randy Howe, Quote Page 51, Lyons Press: An Imprint of Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Connecticut. (Google Books Preview) 
 
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			<p><small><span><b>Posted:</b> June 8, 2012</span>  <span>|</span> <span><b>Filed under:</b> <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/category/marine-science-2/beach/">Beach</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/category/marine-science-2/biodiversity/">Biodiversity</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/category/environmental-education-2/ocean-conservation-environmental-education/conservation/">Conservation</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/ocean/">Ocean</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/category/environmental-education-2/people/">People</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/category/environmental-education-2/random-fun/">Random Fun!</a></span> <span> | <b>Tags:</b> <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/alister-hardy/">Alister Hardy</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/anne-morrow-lindbergh/">Anne Morrow Lindbergh</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/conservation-2/">conservation</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/jacques-yves-cousteau/">Jacques Yves Cousteau</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/loren-eiseley/">Loren Eiseley</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/ocean/">Ocean</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/rainer-maria-rilke/">Rainer Maria Rilke</a>, <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/tag/world-oceans-day/">World Oceans Day</a></span> <span></span> <span>|</span></small></p><p>Because there is not just one quote that summarizes how ethereal and majestic the ocean is, and in honor of <a href="http://worldoceansday.org/">World Oceans Day</a>, and because you know I like <a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/100-ways-to-live-and-die-green/">lists</a>, here is an archive of some inspiring quotes about the important aspects of our ocean all from people you may have heard of a time or two. If you have another favorite, please don’t forget to share and comment below.</p>
<div><p><a href="https://beachchairscientist.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/beachchairscientist_worldoceanday1.jpg"></a></p><p>100 Quotes about the ocean from the Beach Chair Scientist</p></div>
<p>1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide<br/>
2. “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans” – Kahlil Gibran<br/>
3. “We know that when we protect our oceans we’re protecting our future.” – Bill Clinton<br/>
4. “It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world — it’s the American way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller<br/>
5. “The sea! the sea! the open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” – Bryan W. Procter<br/>
6. “To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?” – Walt Whitman<br/>
7. “There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.” – Sir Alister Hardy<br/>
8. “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” – Loren Eiseley<br/>
9. “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” – e.e. Cummings<br/>
10. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came…” – John F. Kennedy<br/>
11. “I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton<br/>
12. “Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.” – Lloyd Biggle Jr.<br/>
13. “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.” – Rachel Carson<br/>
14. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa<br/>
15. “To me, the sea is like a person–like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.” – Gertrude Ederle<br/>
16. “My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br/>
17. “The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.” Christopher Columbus<br/>
18. “Animal protection is education to the humanity.” – Albert Schweitzer<br/>
19. “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” -Blaise Pascal<br/>
20. “You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” – Evan Esar<br/>
21. “Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer<br/>
22. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James<br/>
23. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” – Wyland<br/>
24. “The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans — but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.” – James Carlton<br/>
25. “The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.” – Joseph Conrad<br/>
26. “Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” – Robert Henri<br/>
27. “The sea hath no king but God alone.” – Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br/>
28. “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” – Thomas Fuller<br/>
29. “After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” – Pam Shaw<br/>
30. “Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish’d yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set— In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time’s snowy tents<br/>
In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.” – Joaquin Miller<br/>
31. “The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.” – Sylvia Earle<br/>
32. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau<br/>
33. “A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau<br/>
34. “From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau<br/>
35. “No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau<br/>
36. “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau<br/>
37. “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” -Christopher Paolini<br/>
38. “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” -Sarah Kay<br/>
39. “Hark, now hear the sailors cry / smell the sea, and feel the sky / let your soul &amp; spirit fly, into the mystic.” -Van Morrison<br/>
40. “Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.” -John Kenneth Galbraith<br/>
41. “It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy… Beach Therapy.” -Amy Dykens<br/>
42. “A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” – Linda Gerber<br/>
43. “I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.” – Gary Paulsen<br/>
44. “Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” – William Shakespeare<br/>
45. “I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” – Helen Keller<br/>
46. “When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” – Rainer Maria Rilke<br/>
47. “The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.” – Beyoncé Knowles<br/>
48. “The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br/>
49. “The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.” – Elizabeth I, Queen of England<br/>
50. “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” – Kate Chopin<br/>
51. “I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen.” – Sally Andrew<br/>
52. “The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis<br/>
53. “There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” – Dave Barry<br/>
54. “I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.” – Avery Sawyer<br/>
55. “If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.” Daniel Pauly<br/>
56. “I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.” —Sylvia Earle<br/>
57. “People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth’s life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth’s water is there. It’s the blue heart of the planet-we should take care of our heart. It’s what makes life possible for us. We still have a really good chance to make things better than they are. They won’t get better unless we take the action and inspire others to do the same thing. No one is without power. Everybody has the capacity to do something.” – Sylvia Earle<br/>
57. “It is important to remember that the ocean’s resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call to all of us to pay attention to our ocean.” – Ted Danson<br/>
58. “My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.” George Gordon Byron<br/>
59. “Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean” – Jimi Hendrix<br/>
60. “Ever since I was a child I’ve felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams––I love to jump in and swim around. But it’s the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.” Susan Rockefeller<br/>
61. “No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves’ boundaries …” – Jack Spicer<br/>
62. “I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.” – Drew Barrymore<br/>
63. “Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.” – Fabien Cousteau<br/>
64. “We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.” – Carl Safina<br/>
65. “The world’s finest wilderness lies beneath the waves …” – Wyland<br/>
66. “It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, … Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I’m proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.” – Ted Danson<br/>
67. “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – William Wordsworth<br/>
68. “Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” – Heinrich Zimmer<br/>
69. “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson<br/>
70. “The sea lives in every one of us …” – Wyland<br/>
71. “Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath …” – Wyland<br/>
72. “Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere – without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet’s future.” – Fred Krupp<br/>
73. “Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.” – Donald Worster<br/>
74. “At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it – if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can’t see anything green during the day? Just because we can’t sell shares in nature doesn’t mean it has no value.” – Thomas L. Friedman<br/>
75. “It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” – Hunter S. Thompson<br/>
76. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” – Joseph Conrad</p>
<p>77. “And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain…” – Van Morrison<br/>
78. “‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.” – Lauren DeStefano<br/>
79. “A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” – Linda Gerber<br/>
80. “No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet’s water cycle and in return affects us.” – Fabien Cousteau<br/>
81. “Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire …” – Wyland<br/>
82. “You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.” – Thomas Traherne<br/>
83. “I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.” – James Cameron<br/>
84. “I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” – Anne Spollen<br/>
85. “The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt<br/>
86. “Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.” – Tamora Pierce<br/>
87. “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” – Vincent Van Gogh<br/>
88. “Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.” – Bob Dylan<br/>
89. “Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.” – Ted Danson<br/>
90. “With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” – Sylvia Earle<br/>
91. “That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.” – John Joly<br/>
92. “To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.” – Rachel Carson<br/>
93. “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach” – Henry Beston<br/>
94. “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” – Herman Melville<br/>
95. “To heal the ocean, we must heal ourselves.” – Dr. Rod Fujita<br/>
96. “If you like to eat seafood or swim in the ocean, it’s time to get involved.” – Julie Evans-Brumm<br/>
97. “And I have loved thee, Ocean! And my joy of youthful sports was on thy breast to be borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers. They to me were a delight; and if the freshening sea made them a terror, ‘twas a pleasing fear.” – Lord Byron<br/>
98. “Catch a wave, and you’re sitting on top of the world.” – The Beach Boys<br/>
99. “The sea is not a bargain basement.” – Jacques Cousteau<br/>
100. “Only God almighty and naval research can save us from the perils of the sea.” – John Warner</p>

			
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      Posted: June 8, 2012 | Author: Beach Chair Scientist | Filed under: Beach , Biodiversity , Conservation , Ocean , People , Random Fun! | Tags: Alister Hardy , Anne Morrow Lindbergh , conservation , Jacques Yves Cousteau , Loren Eiseley , Ocean , Rainer Maria Rilke , World Oceans Day | 6 Comments

      Because there is not just one quote that summarizes how ethereal and majestic the ocean is, and in honor of World Oceans Day, and because you know I like lists, here is an archive of some inspiring quotes about the important aspects of our ocean all from people you may have heard of a time or two. If you have another favorite, please don’t forget to share and comment below.

        100 Quotes about the ocean from the Beach Chair Scientist

      1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
      2. “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans” – Kahlil Gibran
      3. “We know that when we protect our oceans we’re protecting our future.” – Bill Clinton
      4. “It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world — it’s the American way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller
      5. “The sea! the sea! the open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” – Bryan W. Procter
      6. “To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?” – Walt Whitman
      7. “There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.” – Sir Alister Hardy
      8. “Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” – Loren Eiseley
      9. “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” – e.e. Cummings
      10. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came…” – John F. Kennedy
      11. “I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton
      12. “Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.” – Lloyd Biggle Jr.
      13. “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.” – Rachel Carson
      14. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
      15. “To me, the sea is like a person–like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.” – Gertrude Ederle
      16. “My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
      17. “The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.” Christopher Columbus
      18. “Animal protection is education to the humanity.” – Albert Schweitzer
      19. “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” -Blaise Pascal
      20. “You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” – Evan Esar
      21. “Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
      22. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
      23. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” – Wyland
      24. “The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans — but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.” – James Carlton
      25. “The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.” – Joseph Conrad
      26. “Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” – Robert Henri
      27. “The sea hath no king but God alone.” – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
      28. “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” – Thomas Fuller
      29. “After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” – Pam Shaw
      30. “Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish’d yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set— In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time’s snowy tents
      In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.” – Joaquin Miller
      31. “The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.” – Sylvia Earle
      32. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
      33. “A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
      34. “From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
      35. “No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
      36. “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
      37. “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” -Christopher Paolini
      38. “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” -Sarah Kay
      39. “Hark, now hear the sailors cry / smell the sea, and feel the sky / let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.” -Van Morrison
      40. “Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
      41. “It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy… Beach Therapy.” -Amy Dykens
      42. “A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” – Linda Gerber
      43. “I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.” – Gary Paulsen
      44. “Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” – William Shakespeare
      45. “I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” – Helen Keller
      46. “When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
      47. “The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.” – Beyoncé Knowles
      48. “The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
      49. “The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.” – Elizabeth I, Queen of England
      50. “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” – Kate Chopin
      51. “I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen.” – Sally Andrew
      52. “The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis
      53. “There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” – Dave Barry
      54. “I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.” – Avery Sawyer
      55. “If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.” Daniel Pauly
      56. “I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.” —Sylvia Earle
      57. “People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth’s life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth’s water is there. It’s the blue heart of the planet-we should take care of our heart. It’s what makes life possible for us. We still have a really good chance to make things better than they are. They won’t get better unless we take the action and inspire others to do the same thing. No one is without power. Everybody has the capacity to do something.” – Sylvia Earle
      57. “It is important to remember that the ocean’s resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call to all of us to pay attention to our ocean.” – Ted Danson
      58. “My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.” George Gordon Byron
      59. “Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean” – Jimi Hendrix
      60. “Ever since I was a child I’ve felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams––I love to jump in and swim around. But it’s the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.” Susan Rockefeller
      61. “No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves’ boundaries …” – Jack Spicer
      62. “I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.” – Drew Barrymore
      63. “Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.” – Fabien Cousteau
      64. “We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.” – Carl Safina
      65. “The world’s finest wilderness lies beneath the waves …” – Wyland
      66. “It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, … Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I’m proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.” – Ted Danson
      67. “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – William Wordsworth
      68. “Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” – Heinrich Zimmer
      69. “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson
      70. “The sea lives in every one of us …” – Wyland
      71. “Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath …” – Wyland
      72. “Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere – without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet’s future.” – Fred Krupp
      73. “Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.” – Donald Worster
      74. “At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it – if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can’t see anything green during the day? Just because we can’t sell shares in nature doesn’t mean it has no value.” – Thomas L. Friedman
      75. “It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” – Hunter S. Thompson
      76. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” – Joseph Conrad

      77. “And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain…” – Van Morrison
      78. “‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.” – Lauren DeStefano
      79. “A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” – Linda Gerber
      80. “No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet’s water cycle and in return affects us.” – Fabien Cousteau
      81. “Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire …” – Wyland
      82. “You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.” – Thomas Traherne
      83. “I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.” – James Cameron
      84. “I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” – Anne Spollen
      85. “The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
      86. “Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.” – Tamora Pierce
      87. “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” – Vincent Van Gogh
      88. “Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.” – Bob Dylan
      89. “Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.” – Ted Danson
      90. “With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” – Sylvia Earle
      91. “That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.” – John Joly
      92. “To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.” – Rachel Carson
      93. “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach” – Henry Beston
      94. “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” – Herman Melville
      95. “To heal the ocean, we must heal ourselves.” – Dr. Rod Fujita
      96. “If you like to eat seafood or swim in the ocean, it’s time to get involved.” – Julie Evans-Brumm
      97. “And I have loved thee, Ocean! And my joy of youthful sports was on thy breast to be borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers. They to me were a delight; and if the freshening sea made them a terror, ‘twas a pleasing fear.” – Lord Byron
      98. “Catch a wave, and you’re sitting on top of the world.” – The Beach Boys
      99. “The sea is not a bargain basement.” – Jacques Cousteau
      100. “Only God almighty and naval research can save us from the perils of the sea.” – John Warner

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      6 Comments on “100 ocean quotes”

           1. rollingharbour says:
              June 8, 2012 at 7:43 am

            Hi. I’ve also posted re W O D and linked to your post. Also ‘borrowed’ your heart Image… Quote 33 is a bit… Weird? ATB from RH

           2. Beach Chair Scientist says:
              June 8, 2012 at 8:41 am

            I agree it is a bit weird! To each their own? :-) I am happy to hear you reposted the heart image. Thanks for sharing and happy world oceans day!

           3. narhvalur says:
              June 9, 2012 at 11:13 am

            Reblogged this on Ann Novek–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors.

           4. Shannon Quinn says:
              August 19, 2012 at 2:11 pm

            Love these! Here’s another…
            “The cure for anything is salt water–sweat, tears or the sea.”–Isak Dinesen

           5. Patricia Awapara says:
              August 25, 2012 at 8:53 pm

            Great post! lots of fun.

           6. jasmine preet says:
              February 3, 2013 at 11:24 am

            good enough

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