Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
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
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
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert 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
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the… — Alan Shepard 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
On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
“Dinsdale and Rohwer found that as humans become more common, so do microbes. From Kingman to Christmas Island, top predators such as… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees… — Keri Hulme 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to… — Baldassare Castiglione 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more… — Mazie Hirono 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
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that… — William Beebe 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
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
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
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