We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the… — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a… — Alexandra Cousteau Copy Share Image
And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I… — Nancy Knowlton Copy Share Image
This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself,… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image