There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
SYLVIA EARLEThey have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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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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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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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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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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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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