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Ex Scientia, Tridens
(From knowledge, seapower)
The Big Dipper. Cassiopeia.
To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."
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.
A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.
Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea.
the coast, irregular
SCORPIUS: Always.
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.
away from the ocean, heading toward the
You are the ocean to my eyes.
There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.
Honor the ocean of love.
XIX. An Opinion XX. A Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still
There are monsters in the sea.
The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.
The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.
Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.
The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
The Ocean's Heart too Smooth - too Blue -
To break for you.
The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull'd, or by the storm-blasts driv'n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.
Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation
The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.
The sea is my business.
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.
The ocean talks to you. Especially at night. Whispering voices that never let up, not even when you sleep.
The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature.
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.
Ah, the ocean. The movement of eternity right in front of us." (61)
The ocean, whose essence is fluid and unresisting, is more prison than the staunchest bricks or iron bars.
Sea of stretch'd ground-swells,
Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,
Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,
I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
Food of Acheron. (Grave.)
[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
The sea is the sweat of the earth.
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress
The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.
Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
I am drawn to the ocean; I find solace in its mystery.
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.
Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!
Darkening sea full of stirred silt and clouds of minute
Australopithecus.
The ocean is made of drops.
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.
I need the sea because it teaches me
The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
the sea is made of blood
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary)
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
In order to take care of our ocean, we need to be knowledgeable.
O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?
I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
There is water at the bottom of the ocean.
The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything ... from me
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.
The shark is fierce, the whale is mighty, but the ocean is both.
When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.
No one ever explained the octopuses.
My mother use to tell me about the ocean.
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
our floating barge.
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.
Until you lose sight of the shore, you'll never discover new oceans!
For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.
The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.
The true sea is cold and black, full of animals...
fiction:
the ocean
i dive
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when i
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in
reality.
- a mermaid escapist II.
The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite and impotent striving, a strength that is ceaselessly broken by falls, an eternal and exquisite lament.
The sea refuses no river
Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.
Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean ...
You need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky ...
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.
Beyond all things is the sea
An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
Mighty waves of oceans live in my soul to encourage me to survive.
Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.
[T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...
Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore.