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- Nov 07, 2020
Ocean Quotes
The ocean as metaphor, and as a place to breathe.
Several of these quotes use the ocean as a metaphor for scale and helplessness - civilization compared to thin ice over deep chaos, a person likened to a leaf drifting without any say in where it goes. See Life quotes for more on navigating uncertainty.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom's side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That's where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
- Lighthouse
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- Nov 07, 2020