The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar…

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

For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You…

— Brian Skerry

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

Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers,…

— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that…

— Barry Gardiner

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

“Gradually the mist had lifted, and the sun burst forth, a ball of fire radiating the sky with unnaturally incandescent hues. Coral was reminded…

— Hannah Fielding

“Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what…

— Julie Murphy

“You are different." She lifted a hand to delicately trace his hairline. He closed his eyes, feeling her fingers tremble against his skin. "For…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

— Janine Benyus

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths,…

— Rebecca Solnit

When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked…

— Michelle Magorian

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon…

— Ted Danson

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues…

— James Dwight Dana