#oceans

Land and sea. We may think of them as opposites; as complements. But there is a difference in how we think of them; the sea, and the land. If we are walking around in a forest, a meadow or a town, we see our surroundings as being made up of individual elements. There are many different kinds of trees in varying sizes, those buildings, these streets. The meadow, the flowers, the bushes. Our gaze lingers on details, and if we are standing in a forest in the autumn, we become tongue-tied if we try to describe the richness around us. All this exists on land. But the sea. The sea is something completely different. The sea is one. We may note the shifting moods of the sea. What the sea looks like when the wind is blowing, how the sea plays with the light, how it rises and falls. But still it is always the sea we are talking about. We have given different parts of the sea different names for navigation and identification, but if we are standing before the sea, there is only one whole. The Sea. If we are taken so far out in a small boat that no land is visible in any direction, we may catch sight of the sea. It is not a pleasant experience. The sea is a god, an unseeing, unhearing deity that does not even know we exist. We mean less than a grain of sand on an elephant's back, and if the sea wants us, it will take us. That's just the way it is. The sea knows no limits, makes no concessions. It has given us everything and it can take everything away from us. To other gods we send our prayer: Protect us from the sea. ↗

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

#sea #experience

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#forests #i #know #live #militant

Question for your life: If love covered as much of the earth’s surface as the oceans, would you still urinate in your wetsuit? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ocean #oceans #urinate #wetsuit #life

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are. ↗

— Ian Rankin

#nature #oceans #pollution #preservation #nature

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#extinct #forest #learn #man #oceans

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#air #around #case #created #currents

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. ↗

— Artur Davis

#control #debt #down #future #get

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ↗

— Andre Gide

#cannot #discover #lose #man #new

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. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion