Quotes About The 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. Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

Roland Lazenby

#12. And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.

Jacqueline Woodson

#13. Well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

Cecelia Ahern

#14. It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Jonathan Swift

#15. The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

Meg Rosoff

#16. All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.

David Berman

#17. A party without cake is just a meeting

Julia Child

#18. Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.

Seamus Heaney

#19. For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

Carlos Alazraqui

#20. I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

Robin Ince

#21. I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.

Philippa Gregory

#22. You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays.

Douglas Adams

#23. African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.

Maria W. Stewart

#24. 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

#25. I got involved in 2003, 2004, with a company called Dance4Life out of Holland.

Tiesto

#26. Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?

J. Edgar Hoover