Great Barrier Reef Quotes

• I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

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  Tracie Bennett

  Sea   Scuba   Scared  

  643

• 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.

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  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Issues   People   Trying  

  Source: www.pbs.org

  3400

• 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.

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  Red Smith

  Baseball   Texas   Firsts  

  1944

• 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?

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  Bruce Sterling

  Ideas   Environmental   Parks  

  3514

• 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.

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  Kevin Rudd

  Fire   Rivers   Risk  

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