Best Coral Quotes
77 Coral quotes by 66 unique authors
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The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements.…
— Tory Burch
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Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and…
— Charles Darwin
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Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to…
— James Dwight Dana
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow…
— James Dwight Dana
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Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and…
— James Dwight Dana
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In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay…
— William Beebe
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That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their…
— Janette Turner Hospital
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We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the…
— Herman Melville
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The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that…
— Eugene Odum
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At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried…
— Hannah Arendt
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And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too,…
— Umberto Eco
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I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had…
— Michael E. Mann
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I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're…
— Tim Cahill
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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, and…
— Klaus Topfer
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Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law,…
— Adela Popescu
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And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents…
— John Muir
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We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals…
— Holland Smith
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for…
— Daniel Dennett
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few…
— Sylvia Earle
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
— Sylvia Earle
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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the…
— Sylvia Earle
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade,…
— William Shakespeare
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