Henry David Thoreau Quotes

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

I like underwater life.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish.

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.

I love the sea.

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

My clients are the whales and the seals.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.