Coral Reef Quotes

• The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.

  

  Eugene Odum
  • Energy
  • Desert
  • Prosperity

• The paper concluded that if current emissions trends continue, within the next fifty years or so “all coral reefs will cease to grow and start to dissolve.”

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Grow
  • Emissions
  • Coral Reef

• 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
  • Action
  • Apathy
  • Coral Reef