Coral Reefs Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba…
— David Attenborough
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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 save sharks and…
— Sylvia Earle
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That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this…
— Michael Berryman
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Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several…
— James Hansen
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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud…
— Eban Goodstein
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A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes…
— Elizabeth Cunningham
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
— Saadi
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By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in…
— Stuart L. Pimm
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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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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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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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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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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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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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For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally…
— Brian Skerry
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The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species…
— Brian Skerry
Who Wrote These Coral Reefs Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 21 Coral Reefs Quotes as follows: