Quotes About Coral Reefs

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

Saadi

#2. 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

#3. Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack, something might happen on land.

Alexander Gould

#4. I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time.

Sylvia Earle

#5. As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#6. The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

Brian Skerry

#7. I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren't a lot of big fish schools.

Brian Skerry

#8. The economic value of ecotourism related to coral reefs alone totals some $9 billion.

Timothy Beatley

#9. To the untrained (human) eye, Thalassinia looks like an expanse of coral reefs and volcanic formations. There are no straight lines or geometric shapes to give away the fact that the structures are actually mermade. (Get it? Mermade. Like mermaid, but ... oh, never mind.)

Tera Lynn Childs

#10. History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#11. In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

Eban Goodstein

#12. 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 the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

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

Bill Gates

#14. Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

Sylvia Earle

#15. For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

Brian Skerry

#16. 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

#17. within the next fifty years or so "all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to dissolve.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#18. I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.

Dean Koontz

#19. A trophy's value isn't measured by the worth of its metal but by the amount of work that's required to obtain it

Johannes Schiefer

#20. It was the best night of my life, getting to dance on stage with Madonna!

Amy Schumer

#21. Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting.

Junot Diaz

#22. Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

T.D. Jakes

#23. I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#24. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

William Shakespeare

#25. 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

#26. The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.

J.A. Brimingham

#27. You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

Steven Seagal

#28. They asked me why I don't quit drinking, I told 'em I'm not a quitter.

The Weeknd

#29. We cannot allow ourselves to be hobbled by the woes and alienation of our race or nation. It is our responsibility to overcome these, even if we can only succeed in our hearts.

Ming-Dao Deng

#30. Isn't it funny that if God were to reveal and explain Himself, the majority of the world would necessarily be disappointed?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.

Marianne Williamson

#32. 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