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.
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.
I wasn't really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.
The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.
The soul of man is larger than the sky,
Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed center.
I can only envision and feel the pain of these animals being stuck in a tiny aquarium. Normally, orcas swim 100 miles a day. They're free in the ocean.
Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!
I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.
I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
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.
Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So… try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.
Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
All of us, including me, can work on our skills. Music is such a huge ocean, you can never feel that you know everything. There will always be something that you can learn.
Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.
We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.
We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.
We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.
I have two houses in California, and they're both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.
My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.
We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.
Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You can actually see it.
If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man.
Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.
My boots use recycled electronics and recycled plastics from the ocean.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking:
As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.
I just cannot fathom the criteria and the eligibility for awards as there is an ocean of difference between the state and national awards.
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.
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.
Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.
Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.
Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.
Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.
Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
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