Gradually the mist had lifted, and the sun burst forth, a…

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

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

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

“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

“I am a whore," she said. "And in addition to that, I am not a nice woman. But despite these facts, my word is…

— Elizabeth Hoyt