Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
SYLVIA EARLEMy parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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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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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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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 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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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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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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