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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.

Sylvia Earle

My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Burd Known Lady Mother Neighborhood
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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Arctic Carbon Dioxide Excess History Human Melt Planet Precede Stunning Temperature Vulnerable
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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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
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
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.
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Agriculture Culture Downstream Drain Forty Gold Golf Lawn Mississippi Percent State Unit
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Ocean Us
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
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
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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Big Care Harm Itself Matter Nothing Ocean Possible Somehow Vast
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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All Earth Ecosystem Out Stand The Universe
Protecting vital sources of renewal – unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens – will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
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All Deep Garden Healthy Hope Protect Provide Reef Renewal Sea Source Unscathed Us Vital
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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Hour I Joy Kow People Sea Spend Take Thousand Under What Wish
They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Body Down Dream Lateral Like Line One Sense Shape Whole
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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Adapt Fin Fish Force Kind Love Really Special Use
No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Atmosphere Earth Generated Live Matter Most No Oxygen Sea
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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Area Barrel Country Dispersant Enormous Five Gallon Gulg Million Permanent Quantities Release Sudden

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