Toronto Ripley's Aquarium

Toronto Ripley`s Aquarium

Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada provides a world class experience that will foster education, conservation, and research, while providing fun and entertainment for everyone by showcasing the beauty of this great aquatic world and the animals within it, with its longest underwater viewing tunnel in North America.

At Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto you immerse yourself in a world of more than 16,000 aquatic animals. Every visitor discovers their own underwater adventure. This awe-inspiring attraction consists of nine carefully curated galleries showcasing a cross section of saltwater and freshwater environments from around the world – starting with species from the Great Lakes basin.

You can experience the Aquarium after hours with its “Sleep with the Sharks” program, or even spend your birthday party under the sea with the famous Birthday Theme Packages or with special events such as Friday Night Jazz.

Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada is located in the heart of downtown Toronto, next to the CN Tower and Rogers Centre. Its address is 288 Bremner Boulevard.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith (Aung San Suu Kyi)

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist (Margaret Eleonor Atwood, a Canadian writer, poet, essayist.)

Optimism is the foundation of courage (Nicholas M. Butler, an American philosopher, diplomat, educator, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize)

I’m not an overnight sensation. I’m a Texan. And I’m a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism (Wendy Davis)

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly (Ambrose Bierce)

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. (Virginia Woolf)

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism (Oscar Wilde)

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable (Voltaire, the greatest of the French philosophers, novelist)

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power (William James, an American philosopher, psychologist, well-known educator and physician)

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world (Jack Layton)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence (Helen Keller, the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree)

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself (Lucille Ball)

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier (Colin Powell)

Optimism is essential to achievement (Nicholas M. Butler)

Health is not valued till sickness comes (Thomas Fuller)

The first wealth is health (Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous American inventor, scientist and engineer)

Healing is a matter of time, but it is also a matter of opportunity (Hippocrates, an ancient Greek philosopher and physician)

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy and he killed himself (Johnny Carson)

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and out bodies together (Thomas Dekker)

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you (Joyce Meyer)

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man health, wealthy and wise (Benjamin Franklin)

All that matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is sprinkles on the sundae (Paul Walker)

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear (Buddha)

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver (Mahatma Gandhi, great Indian philosopher)

My friend and I love to make fish faces. Beverley Mitchell

The sea hath fish for every man and woman. William Camden

To be a different fish, jump out of school. Captain Beefheart

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. (Ovid, great poet, philosopher and writer of Ancient Rome)

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' (Antoine Predock, a world-known American architect)

I have a lot of mice, I have a kitten named 'Girr,' I have an iguana named 'Invader Zim,' I have some fish, a whole buncha water snails, and a tarantula named 'Sweet Pea.' (Matthew Underwood)

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your pocket - you might have caught a fish. (Darrell Royal)

They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that. (Norman Schwarzkopf)

Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve. (Kumail Nanjiani, a famous actor, comedian, writer)

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. (George Allen, Sr.)

I like working with fish, naturally I like seafood. (Roy Yamaguchi)

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? (Drew Barrymore)

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good. (Philip K. Dick, one of America's greatest authors)

I do - I do enjoy a good rom-com here and there. Would 'A Fish Called Wanda' be a rom-com? (Craig Robinson)

Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - instant sashimi. (Marie Helvin)

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. (Andre Gide, a great French author)

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod? (Colin Mochrie, a Canadian comedian)

I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond. (Julie Andrews)

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. (Sylvia Earle)

How is it macho that I like to fish? I've been doing it since I was four. (Jim Harrison)

Fish

Fish

The planet Earth is well known in the Murky Way Galaxy as a place where strange creatures live in water. Deep oceans or hollow lakes... Ponds high in the mountains or swamps where you'll find more mud than clean water... Everywhere you'll find fish these incredibly results of evolution in this obscure corner of our Galaxy. Here come a few photographs of fish. To open a picture, just click on it. When you want to see the next one, close the picture and open another. Enjoy!

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground. (Kim Young-ha)

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. (Lao Tzu)

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. (Mao Zedong)

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? (Douglas Adams)

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. (John Ruskin)

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Irene Dunne, an American film actress and singer)

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. (Dave Barry)

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? Tuna is 'Chicken of the Sea.' (Jessica Simpson)

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. (Ovid)

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. (Craig Brown)

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. (Mark Twain, the greatest American writer)

Timeless

Timeless

Have you ever noticed that the most important things are the hardest things to say? The words diminish your feelings and shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. That means we feel ashamed of our words, not of our feelings.

I hope that there is another dimension, beyond those which are known to humans. It is an artistic dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. 

Magic, Illusory and Parallel Worlds

Aside from the Multiverse physics theory, much of fantasy and science fiction literature and cinema rests on elements from magic or paranormal realms, often taking place expressly in dissimilar, alternate realities. Consequently, the pictures below represent some fictional alternatives, while other thematic images can be found here.

8 hose Station, College Street West, Toronto, Ontario.

A big clock in face of 576 Sherbourne Street, Toronto.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds (Gordon B. Hinckley)

L'horloge sur l'ancien hôtel-de-ville de Toronto

Un horloge de glace au centre-ville de Toronto.

L'horloge Louro Jewellers, au centre-ville de Toronto.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best (Epictetus) - l'inscription sur la base de cette horloge.

Ryerson University Tower. La Tour de l'Universite de Ryerson, située au centre-ville de Toronto, Ontario, tout près de l'intersection de la rue Dundas et King.

This sundial is dedicated to the memory of Katie Anne MacTavish (1963-1993) by her classmates at Victoria University and the many friends whose loves she touched.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved (George Sand)

La face de l'horloge au centre-ville de Toronto, tout près de la rue Front.

L'horloge sur un bâtiment historique au centre-ville de Toronto, Ontario.

Times Stands Still. Well done is better than well said (Benjamin Franklin)

L'horloge sur la tour du Soldat au campus de l'Université de Toronto, au centre-ville.

Une horloge plutôt moderne et faintasiste dans le quartier ne Yorkville.

L'horloge à Nouveau-Jersey, en face de New York.

Yorkville, une tour de l'ancienne caserne des pompiers.

Young street, à la sartie de la station du métro Bloore-Young.

La face de l'horloge de Young St.

Rue Bay, près de l'avenue Hillsboro.