You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait. — Doug Rader 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
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
There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls… — Leonard Cohen 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
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
At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools…That man has awakened to a new youth…Ergo, he is young. — George Luks 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
Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them… — Sheherazade Goldsmith 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out… — Leonard Sweet 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
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
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
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
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
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
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs… — Charlie Jane Anders 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
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
The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks,… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image