Top 25 Quotes About Great Barrier Reef
#1. The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
Campbell Newman
#2. The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#3. 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
#4. I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#5. Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#6. I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.
Tracie Bennett
#7. Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined by fifty percent just in the last thirty years.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#8. Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mind couldn't relate to what it was ... If I saw it and knew it was a shark, I wouldn't be as afraid, but I saw something that looked prehistoric, and I haven't been snorkeling since.
Ving Rhames
#9. 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 never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.
Red Smith
#10. 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
#11. 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 killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
Bruce Sterling
#12. I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.
Billy Joel
#13. Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#14. At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living,
Doug Liman
#15. If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
Albert Schweitzer
#18. God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
Mary Astell
#19. The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.
Robert Aris Willmott
#20. The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
John Mackey
#21. You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays.
Douglas Adams
#22. If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.
Ariel Pink
#23. The truth is, homes change over time - and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.
Tony Fadell
#24. My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.
Jeff Gannon
#25. As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
DJ Jazzy Jeff
