Animal Quote by Antony Garrett Lisi

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

Coral reefs are the backbone for the entire ocean. They are the nursery for the ocean. About a quarter of all marine life in…

— Jeff Orlowski

There's a huge challenge around coral bleaching specifically, because when most people think about coral, they think about the beautiful, white sculpture sitting on…

— Jeff Orlowski

Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can…

— Jack Handey

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city,…

— Jeremy Jackson

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond…

— Edward Forbes

The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn…

— Eugene Odum

Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment,…

— Klaus Topfer

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 quarter of…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make…

— Ian Somerhalder