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Sylvia Earle

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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Appear Button Closely Creature First Floor Glance Look Must Nud Sandy Sea Sort Themselves Wait
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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Beneath Environment Host Insect Miniature Moss Peer Price Prosper See Small Toad Whole
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Acid Acidification Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Excess Increase Ocean Turn
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.
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Able Back Billio Earth Magical Old Ourselves Survive Transport Year Young
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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Big Blue Country Fish Krill Percent Remain Sam Some Still Thing Whale
Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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All Earth Ecosystem Out Stand The Universe
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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Every Go Home Into Ocean Sip Time
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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Capability Commensurate Deal Fact Life Long Move Oil Place Provision Shipments Size Spill
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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Earth Imagine Important IT Ocean Think Without
Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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Back Carbon Chain Every Fertilize Fish Food Generate Grap Lead Oxygen Plankton Ultimately Water Way
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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Ability Around Creature Deep Dive Fly Globe High Human Instant Message Onky Sea Sly
A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Board City Feet Forest Live Look Lumberman Many See Tumbler Will
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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Done Down Ground Job Oil Once Remove Rig Right See Some These Who Would
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Mean Ocean Us

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