Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they…

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade…

— Greta Salpeter

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

— Ricardo Semler

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single…

— James Lovelock

And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power…

— Richard Branson

...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's…

— Lewis Thomas

The Japanese have a long lifespan in part because they eat different forms of algae.

— Homaro Cantu

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

— Homaro Cantu

“In this city of concave algae ponds, my mother begins to plant bonsais, nettle and leaf: silk against the skin.”

— Sneha Subramanian Kanta

What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide…

— Paul Driessen

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are…

— Enric Sala

“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected).…

— Sam Kean

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

— Jamie Hyneman

We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace…

— Barack Obama

Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth moths" who…

— Ann Burton

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have…

— China Mieville