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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…

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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
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…
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen… — Louis Agassiz
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the… — Enric Sala
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jeremy Jackson
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
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as… — Sylvia Earle
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from… — Edward Forbes
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the… — Federico Garcia Lorca

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