Quotes on Marine Life

A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.