Reef Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

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
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural… — Kevin Rudd
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
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he… — Red Smith
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
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up… — Tom Robbins
Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby. — Brian K. Vaughan
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets… — Bruce Sterling
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
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer… — Louis Agassiz
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
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
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
I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef. — Tracie Bennett
China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for… — Mark Carwardine
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also… — Ken Follett
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
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from… — Baldassare Castiglione

Who Wrote These Reef Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 24 Reef Quotes as follows: