Ocean

Ocean Spray is a co-operative of cranberry farmers. Fully exploiting the market potential of the cranberry is probably a serious business if you have a cranberry smallholding.

When you're a geography major, Oceanic is a word used to describe an ocean. Now I'm an English major. Oceanic is a good adjective to use in a poem when describing anything but an ocean.

The ocean provides surf to all those worthy of it.

I am always stunned into silence looking at the ocean and realising that I'm seeing only the top of it.

Salt water that covers seventy percent of the earth's surface.

The ocean is a dream; it is the huge, unknowable part of life on earth. It's giant, it's dark, it's dangerous, and it's comforting. It's both mother and grave. I wish I lived near the ocean.

you can't describe the ocean to a frog that's spent it's whole life in a well.

The sea makes up about 70% of the world. So why isn't ours called 'Planet Ocean'?

Can you believe all those pearls? Just sitting there, inside strange creatures' shells, waiting to be cracked, sorted, worn.

Can you believe all those fish? Just swimming there, around the shells, circling and hoping to catch a glimpse inside, where strange creatures live.

Can you believe all those men? Just living inside their tiny boats, shaking on the surface, trying to catch the fish, trying to crack the shells, trying to find the pearls.

Can you believe the ocean?

The ocean purrs and whispers
As it grinds against the sand
It turns and tosses
With discontent
But never pulls its losses to the deep