Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
SYLVIA EARLETo lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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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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That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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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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If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
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