“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.” YearsTwoSoulFactsHappensHateFightingNationsTaughtCoupleThousandOceanYears AgoCrossesBridgesStreamsContinentsThousand YearsConstructsTwo Nations Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.” YearsThreeSimpleHalfOceanYears AgoBillionsCompoundsPrimevalOrganic Compounds Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all other ... a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as Pacific.” WorldYearsBodyEarthWaterMillionsOceanAspectYears AgoDecidedEastFeaturesContinentsPrincipalRestlessPacificBodies Of Water Book:Hawaii: A Novel Source: Hawaii: A Novel
“We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.” YearsHumansMayHas BeensIdeasMatterBigsLastsOur LivesOceanYears AgoDestroyedAssetsResilient Author:Sylvia Earle
“Jumping off that cliff in Jamaica.It was years ago. It was at this place called Rick's Cafe. Actually, it was two cliffs. They were pretty high, probably a good 40- 50-foot jump into the ocean. That was crazy.” YearsTwoFeetCrazyOceanYears AgoJumpingCliffsCafesJamaicaJumping Off Author:Queen Latifah
“We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.” PeopleYearsDoeRememberWaitingSawsDirectorsOceanHundredYears AgoStandingTablesCoffeeBeachShoreWhalesSurfStood UpBrianStanding ThereScarface Author:Al Pacino
“I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.” YearsKindMeanDifferentSchoolWonderfulPerspectiveOceanHigh SchoolYears AgoQuittingExpertsSurfingDifferent PerspectivePerspective On Things Author:Jeff Bridges
“If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men.” IfsMenWantYearsDoneScienceMillionsAirEvolutionOceanBirdYears AgoFishesFlightSwimHarvardGermsMammalsReptiles Author:George Wald
“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.” PeopleYearsSeaOceanYears AgoTraditionRootsErasHindsightOcean SeaOceans And SeasHigh Seas Author:James Carlton
“Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.” LoveYearsLongSoulSelfFlowerSelf LoveKingsLoversOceanYears AgoStonesQueensBelovedIslandsLong AgoPalacesCrystalsMystic Author:Carl Jung