- 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.
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.
- Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.
- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked going in the ocean.
- Deep Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.
- Ecosystems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.
- Universe
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- Nov 07, 2020
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020