Interesting quote from "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers"

Hi - I'm reading "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers" by Simon Winchester and wanted to share this quote with you.

"And just as the panda and the blue whale have come to symbolize both the beauty and the impermanence of mammalian life; and just as creatures such as the bluefin tuna, the Grand Banks codfish, the dodo and the great auk, and the Japanese flowering cherry blossom have come to stand for the precious fragility of nature, the Barrier Reef has come to stand for the earth's delicate and finely balanced frailty. Not just the frailty of corals. Not just of ocean life. But of the planet's life, in total. For as goes the Great Barrier Reef, science is able to claim, so goes the natural world."

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