I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
SYLVIA EARLENearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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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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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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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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There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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