The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
Edward Forbes

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
Peter Benchley

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Lawrence Hargrave

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
Barry Cornwall

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
Tavis Smiley

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Carl Schurz

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Patricia Cornwell

There are no signposts in the sea.
Vita Sackville-West

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
Nils-Axel Morner

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
Thomas R. Marshall

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
William Taylor

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
Richard Farnsworth

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Mikhail Lermontov

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Eleonora Duse

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Robert D. Ballard

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Robert Treat Paine

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
Frank Gaffney

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
Antony Hewish