It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin… — Thomas S. Monson 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
We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate… — Terence McKenna 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
Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending… — John Nunn 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
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
