Maldives Quotes

• [The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.

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  Bill McKibben

  Dying   President   Coral Reefs  

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

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  Roger Moore

  Venice   Maldives   Has Beens  

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• Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

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  Rajneesh

  Taken   Purity   Granted  

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• We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.

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  Mohamed Nasheed

  Trying   Messages   Glaciers  

  "From underwater, Maldives sends warning on climate change". edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2009.

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• One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.

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  Bill McKibben

  Ocean   Years   Sea  

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

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  Brigitte Nielsen

  Years   Maldives   Spectacular  

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• The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

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  Helen Keller

  Age   Tribes   Maldives  

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.134, Matthew Gordon

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• God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  God   Truth   Treasure  

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

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  Mohamed Nasheed

  Ocean   Book   Islands  

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• It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

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  Nils-Axel Morner

  Lying   Past   Islands  

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