Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
SYLVIA EARLEI am not in any hurry to grow up.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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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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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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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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