If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
SYLVIA EARLEI hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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