Corals Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller… — Enric Sala
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a… — Ian Somerhalder
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that… — Leonardo da Vinci
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 all… — Elizabeth Kolbert
My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga. — Swami Vivekananda
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs… — Jeremy Jackson
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
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the… — Sylvia Earle
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500… — Edward Forbes
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren… — Federico Garcia Lorca
For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are… — Brian Skerry
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. — Harold Edward Holt

Who Wrote These Corals Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Corals Quotes as follows: