Zora Neale Hurston

"The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor." - Zora Neale Hurston

H. P. Lovecraft

"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean." - H. P. Lovecraft

Peter Benchley

"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth." - Peter Benchley

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hosea Ballou

"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains." - Hosea Ballou

Samuel Butler

"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning." - Samuel Butler

John Donne

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." - John Donne

John Burnside

"If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how." - John Burnside

Arthur C. Clarke

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