Health to the ocean means health for us.
SYLVIA EARLEThere 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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I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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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 have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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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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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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