BC Cook
THE sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. – Jacques Cousteau
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. – Robert Wylan
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
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. – Arthur C. Clarke
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. – Dave Barry
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. – Rainer Maria Rilke
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul…the best thing for a cut or abrasion was to go swimming in saltwater. Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. – Jimmy Buffet
A [swimming] pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life. – Linda Gerber
See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me. And no one knows, how far it goes. – Disney’s Moana
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. – Robin Lee Graham
I never am seasick, never. I am sea drunk! – Igor Stravinsky
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
You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so…I don’t know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you’re part of something bigger. – Lauren Myracle
It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. – Francis Drake
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. – Robert Henri
BC Cook, PhD lived on Saipan and has taught history for over 30 years. He is a director and historian at Sealark Exploration (sealarkexploration.org).
