Language is a city, to the building of which every human…

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

— Anonymous

I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case…

— Dean Koontz

I'm actually getting to the stage where places I travelled to for the first time in the early 1990s are now unrecognisable. I go…

— Steve Backshall

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components…

— Terence McKenna

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

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

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