Coral Reef Sayings

#1. This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing ... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

Robert Reed

#2. I've seen you up close, like this. I remember your eyes. They're the color of the sea -- just inside a coral reef and your freckles are like the stones of a volcanic island scattered along the sand. Your hair is like the sun setting over the water, shooting out orange rays in all directions

Melissa Turner Lee

#3. Her blush was the color of a coral reef, but smooth.

Aimee Bender

#4. We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

Terence McKenna

#5. Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.

Alexandra Cousteau

#6. 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

#7. The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef, and Reap the Wild Wind, Oliver Griswold's The Florida Keys and the Coral Reef, and McGuane's Ninety-two in the Shade.

Tom Corcoran

#8. 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

#9. Love is like going snorkeling ... You go along looking at pretty fish and cool plants until a wave rolls you over a coral reef ... then the sharks come.

Julie Wright

#10. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

Julie Murphy

#11. The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#12. Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined by fifty percent just in the last thirty years.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#13. Dream of the diamonds but then dont shatter them by stones .

Suchet Chaturvedi

#14. We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

Terence McKenna

#15. 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.

Terence McKenna

#16. Being a good human being is good business.

Paul Hawken

#17. 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 feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

Janette Turner Hospital

#18. After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Paulo Coelho

#19. You're a lot like that bird in the barn. You're so scared that you're going to be caged in forever you can't see the way out. You smack yourself against the wall again and again and again. The door is open, Beth. Stop running in circles and walk out.

Katie McGarry

#20. There was always a pass through the reef where the sweet water inhibited the growth of the coral. As

Wilbur Smith

#21. As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#22. When the time travel is eventually doable technologically,
yesterday was dead a man who is going to be born tomorrow.

Toba Beta

#23. Every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto