Reefs Quotes

• Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ice, Age, Gone

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• That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.

  Michael Berryman

  Rain, Ocean, Cutting

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

  Saadi

  Animal, Mountain, Desert

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• Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Lakes, Blue, Oysters

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• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Cities, Language And Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

  Keri Hulme

  Beach, Pain, Islands

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

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• 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, and choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.

  Klaus Topfer

  Running, Ocean, Animal

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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 gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

  David Attenborough

  Moving, Coral Reefs, Firsts

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• I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.

  Nancy Knowlton

  Ocean, Eye, Scary

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• Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make coral? Our heart. We simply cannot survive without our heart; therefore, it's mandatory we heal and protect our coral reefs now.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ocean, Heart, Thinking

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• Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Marine, Sea, Coral Reefs

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

  Doug Rader

  Years, Waiting, Thousand

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• Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Blessing, Opportunity

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• Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

  Sylvia Earle

  Loss, Resilience, Coral Reefs

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• 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 several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.

  James Hansen

  Stress, Rain, Ocean

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• Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ignorance, Science, Rocks

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.17

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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 grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cells, Cities, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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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 wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

  Kevin Rudd

  Fire, Rivers, Risk

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• I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Healthy, Able, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Technology, Animal

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Home, Swimming

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• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Trying, Novelists, Stories

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• I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

  Joel Silver

  Stupid, People, Saws

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• I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Saws, Lawyer, Making Money

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.344, Essential Library

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• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

  Cab Calloway

  Fun, Saws, Segregation

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