Without technology the science of oceanography would still think the ocean bottom was an ice cube..

Time and tide wait for no man… Geoffrey Chaucer 

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one… Khalil Gibran

Ice ages have come and gone.  Coral reefs have persisted… Silvia Earle

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever…Jacques-Yves Cousteau

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam… unknown

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you…Friedrich Nietzsche

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end… William Shakespeare

The ocean is a mighty harmonist…William Wordsworth

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe…John Muir