World Oceans Day is marked annually on June 8 to raise awareness and educate people on the importance of one of Earth’s most vital resources. The theme for World Oceans Day 2022 is "Revitalisation: Collective Action for the Ocean."

World Ocean Day was first suggested in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The UN officially designated June 8 as World Oceans Day in the year 2008.

"It is time to realize that, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement on climate change, we urgently need collective action to revitalize the ocean. That means finding a new balance in our relationship with the marine environment," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on the website.

Here are 10 quotes and sayings, courtesy Good Reads, to celebrate World Oceans Day.

1. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.” -- John F. Kennedy

2. "The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." -- Joseph Conrad

3. "To me, the sea is like a person — like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there." — Gertrude Ederle

4. “Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.” -- H.P. Lovecraft

5. “Because 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

6. “Ocean is a mighty harmonist.” -- William Wordsworth

7. “The least movement is important to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” -- Blaise Pascal

8. “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” -- Rachel Carson

9. “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” -- Henry Beston

10. “Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.” -- William Arthur Ward

Marine life in tropical waters declines when annual average sea temperature rises above 20 to 25 degrees Celsius
Marine life in tropical waters declines when annual average sea temperature rises above 20 to 25 degrees Celsius AFP / ROMEO GACAD
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