16 Inspirational Quotes About The Seas And The Oceans That Remind Us To Protect Them

The world is almost 71% percent water with 4 named oceans: The Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Atlantic. Some people also recognize a 5th ocean, AKA the Southern Ocean near the Antarctica.

Over 2,28,000 species live in the oceans but many experts think there could be more than 2 million that science hasn’t even discovered yet.

The World Ocean Day gives us a chance to honor them all and the water itself. So, here goes a few quotes from eminent personalities around the world reminding us to protect the seas and the oceans at all possible cost.

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there? — Walt Whitman

TWO

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. — Isak Dinesen

THREE

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.

― John F. Kennedy

FOUR

Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away. — Sarah Kay

Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean. — Jimi Hendrix

SIX

Being out there in the ocean, God’s creation, it’s like a gift He has given us to enjoy. — Bethany Hamilton

SEVEN

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. — Enya

EIGHT

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

NINE

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. — Ambrose Bierce

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. — Mother Teresa

ELEVEN

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin

TWELVE

The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean. — Beyoncé

THIRTEEN

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. — Sylvia Earle

FOURTEEN

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. ― Rachel Carson

SIXTEEN

The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ― Alexander Smith