Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring. . . . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change. . . . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.
My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.
Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you. ' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me. ” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
On the beach, you can live in bliss.
I got the job [in Moana project] about six months before we started rehearsals. No, seven and a half months before we started at the Public, and so, it's been my ocean of calm throughout the Hamilton phenomenon.
Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.