"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."
Simone Schwarz-Bart

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
Arthur C. Clarke

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came."
John F. Kennedy

"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
Nicolaus Copernicus

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
Saint Augustine

"A lifeguard once told me to never turn my back to the ocean. As a photographer, it's one of the best things I ever learned."
Gary Zuercher