Reef Quotes
24 quotes by 24 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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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
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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
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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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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
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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…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
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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
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Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
— Brian K. Vaughan
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.
— Tracie Bennett
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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
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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
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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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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: