Great Barrier Reef Quotes

“... [T]here were more shoals outside
Than teeth in a shark’s head.”

“Wikipedia: Great Barrier Reef”

“Flowers turned to stone! Not all the botany
Of Joseph Banks, hung pensive in a porthole,
Could find the Latin for this loveliness,
Could put the Barrier Reef in a glass box
Tagged by the horrid Gorgon squint
Of horticulture. Stone turned to flowers
It seemed—you’d snap a crystal twig,
One petal even of the water-garden,
And have it dying like a cherry-bough.”