We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp,… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm actually getting to the stage where places I travelled to for the first time in the early 1990s are now unrecognisable.… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself,… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Coral reefs are the backbone for the entire ocean. They are the nursery for the ocean. About a quarter of all marine… — Jeff Orlowski Copy Share Image
Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
![“On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.” quote by Alan Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9e9/alan-shepard-11358_beautiful_on-the-periscope-what-a-beautiful-view-c_2097146.png)
![“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or…” quote by James Dwight Dana](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0db/james-dwight-dana-34629_bottom_are-coral-reefs-growing-from-the-depths_1275581.jpg)
![“[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/761/bill-mckibben-1057_cabinets_the-maldives-they-ve-become-deeply-polit_2785669.jpg)