#ocean

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean. ↗

— William H. Seward

#claimed #constitution #domain #establishment #even

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#ocean #sea #water #music

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#monsters #ocean #sleep #dreams

Nothing's ever the same, she said. Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ocean #people #change

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#death #lonely #ocean #death

Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history. ↗

— Callum Roberts

#environmental-conservation #environmental-degradation #environmentalism #oceans #environmentalism

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. ↗

— Ryunosuke Satoro

#individually #ocean #together

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. ↗

— Barack Obama

#come #devastate #famine #lands #leave

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#european #friends #heart #keep #ocean

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#amount #fish #goes #hardly #i