Components Quote by Eugene Odum

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,…

— Klaus Topfer

Coral reefs are the backbone for the entire ocean. They are the nursery for the ocean. About a quarter of all marine life in…

— Jeff Orlowski

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city,…

— Jeremy Jackson

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…

— James Hansen

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

— Bill Gates

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

— Brian K. Vaughan

We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more acidic waters,…

— Mazie Hirono

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor…

— Henry David Thoreau

Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing…

— Brian Schatz

You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

— Doug Rader