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G. Carleton Ray
(1928 - )
environmental scientist and author whose life-long career has been devoted to cross-disciplinary coastal-marine research and conservation (now the recognized discipline of conservation ecology). His work has spanned across polar, temperate, and tropical environments.
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Science Quotes by G. Carleton Ray (5 quotes)
If there is need for scientists to become conservationists and push for natural area preservation, there is an almost greater need for conservation to incorporate science. Scientists and conservationists have not worked together enough.
— G. Carleton Ray
From Paper, 'The Scientific Need for Shallow-Water Marine Sanctuaries,' collected as Article VI, in Julia Allen Field and Henry Field (eds.), Scientific Use of Natural Areas: Symposium (1965), 85. The Symposium was the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington (Aug 1963). Lee M. Talbot, summarizing the Symposium echoed Ray’s words to emphasize the theme of the Symposium (p.102), that — “there is a need for scientists to act on the conservation of natural areas.”
Man’s relationship to the sea today is that of the Stone Age culture. We like to think we are pretty modern, but in the sea we are still hunting and gathering.
— G. Carleton Ray
From 'Remarks Delivered at Symposium', after Ray’s paper, 'The Scientific Need for Shallow-Water Marine Sanctuaries,' collected as Article VI, in Julia Allen Field and Henry Field (eds.), Scientific Use of Natural Areas: Symposium (1965), 92. The Symposium was the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington (Aug 1963).
The coastal zone may be the single most important portion of our planet. The loss of its biodiversity may have repercussions far beyond our worst fears.
— G. Carleton Ray
In 'Ecological Diversity and Coastal Zones and Oceans', collected in E. O. Wilson (ed.), Biodiversity (1988), 48.
We call this planet Earth, yet this is the only planet that has a sea. I think we should have called it “sea”, of course, but the naming is already done.
— G. Carleton Ray
From 'Remarks Delivered at Symposium', after Ray’s paper, 'The Scientific Need for Shallow-Water Marine Sanctuaries,' collected as Article VI, in Julia Allen Field and Henry Field (eds.), Scientific Use of Natural Areas: Symposium (1965), 92. The Symposium was the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington (Aug 1963). Arthur C. Clarke is attributed by James Lovelock, with a similar quote using the name “Ocean” in place of “sea”.
We still view the sea as a limitless wilderness, which of course, it is not. We view the sea apart from the earth.
— G. Carleton Ray
From 'Remarks Delivered at Symposium', after Ray’s paper, 'The Scientific Need for Shallow-Water Marine Sanctuaries,' collected as Article VI, in Julia Allen Field and Henry Field (eds.), Scientific Use of Natural Areas: Symposium (1965), 92. The Symposium was the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington (Aug 1963). Ray’s remark continues with, “We call this planet Earth…” quoted separately on this web page.