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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.
Oct 2, 2025
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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.
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.
To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.
The sea lives in every one of us.
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Smell the sea and feel the sky.
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.
The sea is as near as we come to another world.
Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.