I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and…

[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold…

— Bill McKibben

“Our lives are composed of unexpected moments and unforgettable adventures.”

— Erin Forbes

Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth.…

— James Dwight Dana

We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more acidic waters,…

— Mazie Hirono

Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is…

— Johan Rockstrom

In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes:…

— Eban Goodstein

Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make…

— Ian Somerhalder

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on…

— Dean Koontz

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But…

— Alexandra Cousteau

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

— Bill Gates

That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest,…

— Michael Berryman

Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities…

— Sylvia Earle