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“Oceanographer Edward Baker and his colleagues... came across a startling anomaly. ...something peculiar: a football-shaped mass of warm water some twelve miles across and nearly half a mile from top to bottom. ...a half a degree warmer than the surrounding sea water. ...18 billion kilowatt-hours of energy ...The researchers dubbed this feature a megaplume.”
Shawna Vogel wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In geophysical circles, the question is not so much why the sea is salty, but why it remains just as salty as it is, no more, no less.”
Shawna Vogel wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Embrace the vow of compassion to deliver all beings, Float like an untethered boat in the Dharma sea. Ask me what merits have I over a lifetime, They are the Buddha’s Light across five continents.”
Hsing Yun (1927–2023) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Excerpt in diary, "Handing Down the Light" (2004)
“The ships have come up the river to their station again, a little below their lines. Several deserters from Paulus Hook have come over. They all report that General Howe is wounded, as did those from the fleet. It appears to be a prevailing opinion in the land and sea service.”
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) said by 1786 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They’d believe anything if you make it sound silly enough.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sea was a phenomenon I had never clapped eyes on for myself, yet it seemed, from the tales, a destination ultimate and uncompromising. The ocean’s edge, the brink of the land; the lip of Chaos.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a sailor voyages in the midst of the sea, he watches the stars,”
Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) said by 700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Dirac’s idea restores the stability of the spectrum by introducing a stable vacuum where all negative energy states are occupied, the so-called Dirac sea, it also leads directly to the conclusion that a single-particle interpretation of the Dirac equation is not possible.”
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not alone in making this point. At least one European Indologist accuses Pollock of relocating Orientalism 'to the "New Raj" across the deep blue sea'.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.”
Otto Neurath (1882–1945) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Otto Neurath (1921), "Spengler's Description of the World," as cited in: Nancy Cartwright et al. Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics, Cambridge University Press, 28 Apr. 2008 p. 191
“The next time you dine on sushi -- or sashimi, or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail, whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean -- think of the real cost. For every pound that goes to market, more than 10 pounds, even 100 pounds, may be thrown away as bycatch. This is the consequence of not knowing that there are limits to what we can take out of the sea.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from her 2009 TED talk
“I hope Jill Tarter's wish to engage Earthlings includes dolphins and whales and other sea creatures in this quest to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. And I hope, Jill, that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. (Chuckles) Did I say that? I guess I did.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from her 2009 TED talk
“Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration in:Effect of Violent Video Games on Kids; Dogs' Efforts to Keep Mail Safe; Spanish Government Sues Over Oil Spills,CNN.com, May 18, 2003
“Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But taking a small number of wild creatures out of large populations while protecting-not destroying the habitat is very different from the industrial-scale extraction of wildlife now taking place in the sea. These issues seemed to intrigue President George W. Bush during a conversation over dinner at the White House in April 2006.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I hope Jill Tarter's wish to engage Earthlings includes dolphins and whales and other sea creatures in this quest to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. And I hope, Jill, that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I try a poetic approach and describe how luminous, rainbow-colored jellies, starlike planktonic creatures, giant squid, translucent pink prawns, gray dolphins, brown lizards, spotted giraffes, emerald mosses, rustling grasses, every leaf on every tree and all people everywhere, even residents of inland cities and deserts who may never see the sea, are nonetheless dependent upon it.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Far and away the greatest threat to the sea and to the future of mankind is ignorance. But with knowing comes caring, and with caring, the hope that maybe we'll find the Holy Grail of understanding, strike a balance with the natural systems that sustain us, and thus achieve an enduring place for humankind on a planet that got along without us for billions of years and no doubt could do so again.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the past few decades-my lifetime-the sea has changed; with each passing year, pressures on ocean resources and ocean ecosystems increase; the size of the ocean does not.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps with knowing will come caring, and with caring, an impetus toward the needed sea change of attitude, one that combines the wisdom of science and the sensitivity of art to create an enduring ethic.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not possible to cover over a thing like this, whatever is necessary will be done ... It is routine for jet fighters to sometimes fly in and out over (national) borders ... when you consider their speed over the sea ... These are not ill-intentioned things but happen beyond control due to the jets' speed.”
Abdullah Gül (born 1950) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After a Turkish warplane was shot down by Syria due to violations of borders (2012)
“I dare not think of the sun-drenched beaches and the stormy skies, and of the joy of painting them in the sea breezes.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in a letter, from Paris 14 June 1869, to family-friend Ferdinand Martin; as cited by Colin B. Bailey in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publisher, Metropolitan Museu…
“I have too often contented myself with being a hasty improviser: I have spent too much time exploring fleeting effects of the sky and sea.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it creeps back slowly without having reached, moaning. It is always asking a question and it never gets the answer.”
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not tempt us with the poet's twisted pride. Here is the double fact that we must grasp— The sea is lonely and the land is wide.”
John Edward Williams (1922–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many convicts were bewildered by the first days of the voyage to Australia. Most had never seen the open sea until they boarded the convict ship, and few had travelled in a ship. And now, by sentence of the courts, they were about to begin one of the longest voyages any traveller could make.”
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The person she'd been when the three of them, she and her husband and her son, had gotten on that boat and left Haiti-that person was also lost at sea.”
Edwidge Danticat (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Everything Inside (2019), in the story "Without Inspection
“They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away? ("Children of the Sea")”
Edwidge Danticat (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love...like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too. ("Children of the Sea")”
Edwidge Danticat (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can best stress the importance of the U.S. Navy to the American people when I state that without sea power on our side the United States would never have become a nation, would not have continued to exist as a nation, and even more specifically would not have won the great World War just so successfully concluded.”
Ernest King (1878–1956) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From King's Foreword in Battle Stations! Your Navy In Action (1946) by Admirals of the U.S. Navy, p. 9
“The Battle of Guadalcanal, in spite of heavy losses we sustained, was a decisive victory for us, and our position in the southern Solomons was not threatened again seriously by the Japanese. Except for the "Tokio express," which from time to time succeeded in landing small quantities of supplies and reinforcements, control of the sea and air in the southern Solomons passed to the United States.”
Ernest King (1878–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd love to see the whole of your sex swimming in a sea of blood. The way I feel I could drink out of your skull. I could eat your heart roasted whole! You think I'm weak! My father will come home - find his money stolen! He'll send for the sheriff - and I'll tell him everything. Then there'll be peace and quiet ... forever.”
August Strindberg (1849–1912) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Julie in Miss Julie (1888)
“Arms, and the Man I sing, who first did land, Fate-forc'd from Troy, on the Lavinian Strand; Whom angry Gods at Sea and Land engage, And cruel Juno's persecuting Rage. Much suffer'd he by War, whilst Walls he rear'd, And Trojan Gods to Latian Realms transferr'd; Whence Latins, and the Alban Princes come, And lofty Tow'rs of all-commanding Rome.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their oars I bid them ply, their lives to save, Death at their heels: they brush the briny wave, And soon our ship the open sea enjoy'd; But all the rest the Læstrigons destroy'd.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.”
Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What happened here is the most significant, as it is the most devastating human thing that has happened in America since Sherman marched to the sea.”
Max Eastman (1883–1969) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Class War in Colorado," The Masses, June 1914, cited in Dorothy Ray Healey, California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1990)
“This was the greatest invasion in this war so far – probably the greatest in human history – and the sea was crowded to the horizon with uncountable ships, but we were as lost and ineffective as babes in the wood.”
Norman Lewis (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an inherent Mediterranean austerity much in evidence in the Naples area, in Sorrento and Capri, which seems to come from the sea, since it is hardly to be found inland.”
Norman Lewis (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How much more infinite a sea is Man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think that you have found his borders.”
Mikha'il Na'ima (1889–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“North from the beautiful islands, North from the headlands and highlands, The long sea-wall, The white ships flee with the swallow; The day-beams follow and follow, Glitter and fall.”
Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even though a tempest may be blowing. Furled sails are always dirty. Those who would deride me are so many furled sails. They can do nothing.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was consumed by a sea of people with heaven-bound hands, their eyes full of adoration for the guitar-carrying man on stage who, from his gentle doe eyes to his scraggly brown beard and flowing hair, served as stock-image white Jesus placeholder.”
Chris Stedman (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sea raises you to your feet. And dead calm. Strands of light hold your hand. Now you have left this shore. Now you are in the wind of an invisible sail.”
Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mirkka Rekola, Kuka lukee kanssasi (Who is Reading with You), 1990; Translated by Sari Hantula. Quoted at Mirkka Rekola, at electricverses.net, accessed 20-03-2017.
“Two there on the beach / as close together as nostrils. / Calm sea day.”
Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sea fighting is pure common sense. The first of all its necessities is SPEED, so as to be able to fight--When you like, Where you like, and How you like.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Churchill, dated 16/1/1912, quoted in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 140.
“We left our element, the sea, to make ourselves into a conscript nation fighting on the Continent with four million soldiers out of a population of forty millions.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thought it would be a good thing to be a missionary, but I thought it would be better to be First Sea Lord.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source