#ocean

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.' ↗

— Luke Scott

#atlantic #because #caribbean #destiny #freedom

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

#doing #drop #feel #just #less

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#actually #hauled #made #moonshine #never

Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war. ↗

— Philip Morrison

#fighters #intact #keep #major #neither

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. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#ocean

I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how life of the reef was layered and intertwined. I now had many individual pieces at hand: named images, nouns. How were they related? What were the verbs? Which syntaxes were indigenous to the place? I asked a dozen knowledgeable people. No one was inclined to elaborate- or they didn’t know. “Did you see the octopus?” Someone shouted after the dive. Yes, I thought, but who among us knows what it was doing? What else was THERE, just then? WHY? ↗

— Barry Lopez

#diving #mystery #ocean #reefs #experience

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#dance #freedom #ocean #turquoise #freedom

I let her go. She didn't step back. “I need to either get you out of my system so I can go back to my life, or fall in love with you so much it changes my life completely. Ever since I saw you, I wanted you.” My jaw clenched. Did she know how hard that was to admit? “You break all my rules and scare me half to death. ↗

— Jade Hart

#change

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#environmentalism #fish #humour #ocean #science

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

#ocean #change