People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.
Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.
As the oceans go, so do we.
Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?
Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.
Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you.
The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.
If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.
Gaps don'tjust happen. There is agenerative elementinside them,a welling motion as when coldwaters shoulderup throughwarmer oceans. And where gapschoose to widen,coordinates warp,even in placesconstant sincethe oldest maps.
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.
We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.
