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
There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer. — Terence McKenna 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
I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the… — Elizabeth Kolbert 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
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a… — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the… — Enric Sala 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
Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp,… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how… — Barry Lopez 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
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him… — Aeschylus 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
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait. — Doug Rader Copy Share Image