Nancy Knowlton Professions : Biologist Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Nancy Knowlton Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change. Nancy Knowlton habitat damage ocean Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up. Nancy Knowlton backyards taken people I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action. Nancy Knowlton scary ocean eye Similar Authors Anne Wojcicki biologist Alfred Kinsey biologist Alexander Fleming biologist Alain Bombard biologist Bert Holldobler biologist Barry Commoner biologist All Authors