#oceans

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. ↗

— Artur Davis

#control #debt #down #future #get

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ↗

— Andre Gide

#cannot #discover #lose #man #new

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950 and 2003 declared that if current trends of fishing and pollution continue, every fishery in the world's oceans will collapse by 2048...The oceans as an ecosystem would completely collapse. ↗

— Peter Heller

#oceans #page- #science

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#before #computers #connect #equally #lines

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#american way #cut #looking #oceans #off

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#family #heal #help #obama #oceans

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

— Philip Morrison

#fighters #intact #keep #major #neither

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#beach #before #child #i #i am