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“Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.”

Believe Existence Effects Ocean Consequence Karma Drowning Refusal Bad Karma I Believe In Karma

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.”

Together Faces Challenges Sky Ocean India Togetherness Being Together Together We Can Challenges We Face Highness Deepness

Author:Sonia Gandhi

“Sssh says the ocean Sssh says the small wave at the shore sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable. Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore. Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.”

People Earth Proud Ocean Eternity Wave Violent Remarkable Shore Washing Surf

Author:Rolf Jacobsen

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

Source: Life and death in a coral sea

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”

“No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.”

May Sea Land Conditions Normal Ocean Marine Tanks Dolphins Aquariums Duplicate Marine Life Sea Life Land And Sea

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

“The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.”

Men Sea Ocean Boat Phrases Conservation Literal Naval Nautical Unifying Ocean Conservation

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.”

People Sea Ocean Making Love Sailing Diving Sailing And The Sea Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Maritime Beach Ocean Sea And Sky

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.”

Animal Sea Civilization Ocean Plant Farmers Hunting Conservation Hunters Farming Herds Ocean Conservation

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The sea is the universal sewer.”

Sea Ocean Universal Conservation Sewers Ocean Conservation

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.”

“It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.”

Ocean Thought Provoking Provoking Drops In The Ocean

Author:Mother Teresa

“Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.”

Earth Levels Cities Ocean Raised Prosperity Despite Ice Global Warming Evident Jersey Utopia Caps New Jersey Great Cities Ice Hockey

Author:Godfried Danneels

“I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.”

Knows Way Might Dark Walking Ocean Climate Climate Change Edges Transition Regimes Cliffs

Author:Terry Joyce

“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.”

“Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.”

Two Earth Growing Violence Planets Ocean Hot Green Climate Change Rising Partnership Harvest Expanding Temperature Crossroads

Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.”

Ifs World Would Be Lost Sin Ocean Surfing Surf Surfer Sin In The World

Author:Laird Hamilton

“Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.”

Has Beens Bigs Turns Ocean Wave Get Better Surfing Turn-on Surf Surfer

Author:Kelly Slater

“Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.”

Heart Water Sea Planets Ocean Blue Strongest Conservation Our Planet Degradation Fragility Surfer Scuba Ocean Conservation Blue Ocean Scuba Divers

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The sea is as near as we come to another world.”

World Water Sea Ocean Another World Sailing And The Sea Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Sea Water Ocean Water

Book:Poems 1955-2005

Source: Poems 1955-2005

“Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.”

Wells Kids Next Friendship Sea Grew Ocean Grew Up My Friends My Best Friend San Diego Ocean Exploration

Author:Robert Ballard

“The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.”

Knows Littles Realizing Ignorance Ocean Islands Midst

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.”

“As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.”

Ifs Men Should Has Beens Earth Sides Walks Sun Feet Ocean Should Have Opposites Originals Scary Regions Pairs Adam Ancestor Should Have Been Fables Descendants Credible Sun Rise Antipodes

Author:Saint Augustine

“There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.”

Faces Felt Blood Sea Wind Ocean Heavy Salt Wet Limbs

Book:Sir Nigel and the White Company

Source: Sir Nigel and the White Company

“In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.”

Source: A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds

“A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.”

Should Ocean Boat Crafts Dictatorship Sailing Benevolent Nautical Yacht Sailing And The Sea Boats And Sailing Ocean Sea

Author:Tristan Jones

“One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss.”

Heart Self Spirituality Ocean Comfortable Yoga Bliss Inner Self Concentrating

Author:Jaideva Singh

“Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.”

World May Evil Results Sky Mountain Ocean Deeds Buddhist Entering

Book:Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers

Source: Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers

“Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.”

Teaching Discipline Taste Ocean Buddhist Liberation Salt

Author:Gautama Buddha

“If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.”

Ifs Littles Moving Ocean Overcoming Scared Moving Forward Being Scared

Author:Colleen Houck

“My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.”

Night Heaven Perfect Rooms Sea Sky Wind Amount Ocean Summer Blue Storm Weather Sailor Blue Sky Turrets

Author:Katherine Page

“I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.”

Men Fighting Sea Ocean I Realized Conservation Behalf Urgent Ocean Conservation

Author:Alain Bombard

“Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.”

Children Felt Water Sea Ocean Rivers Connected Streams Revelations Lakes Swim Solace Rejuvenation

Author:Susan Cohn Rockefeller

“We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.”

World Way Sea Planets Ocean Stress Blessed Magnificent Miraculous

Author:Carl Safina

“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.”

Energy Deals Sea Planets Ocean Protection Atmosphere Marine Ecosystems

Book:Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Source: Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

“[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.”

Ends Inspiration Beautiful Motivation Water Accepting Ocean Stomach Organs Glamorous Cleaners Oysters Algae

Author:Kate Orff

“We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.”

Crime Scene Ocean Murderer

Author:Carl Safina

“If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.”

Ifs Whole Science Creation Ocean Creating Bottom Chains Collapse Food Chain Overfishing

Author:Carl Safina

“The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.”

Ifs Want Use Care Science Term Space Ocean Treats Blue Take Care Fishing Goods Blank Wildlife Habitat Goods And Services

Author:Carl Safina

“The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.”

Water Sea Sky Wind Source Ocean Rain Rivers Clouds Blow Arise Streams Blast Rain Water

Author:Xenophanes

“For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake-with our minds, hearts and hands-to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea-that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet.”

Source: Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas

“We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.”

Blood Cry Tears Ocean Sweat Shantaram

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.”

Pain Law Joy Clear Air Sky Creation Ocean Angel Sake Clouds Selfish Release Streams Celestial Gladness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”

“O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.”

World Believe Son Ocean Ships Islamic My Son Load Sail Iman Deep Ocean Dunya Believe In Allah

Author:Luqman

“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.”

Ifs Inspirational Humans Challenges Break Records Activity Mountain Disease Ocean Crosses Perseverance Core Cures Climbs Human Activity

Author:James Ramsey Ullman

“Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.”

Way Inspiration Teaching Taste Ocean Fundamentals Salt

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.”

Inspirational Running Water Ready Drink Holy Ocean Seeking Holy Water

Author:Kabir

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