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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.

Sylvia Earle

A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Board City Feet Forest Live Look Lumberman Many See Tumbler Will
Nearly 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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Animal Divison Freshwater Half Land Life Major Make Nearly Occur Only Sea
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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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
Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power
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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Abundant Arrive Billion Less More Planet Reverse Situation Two When Wildlife
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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Deal Fact Governance Integrity Long Lose Oil Place Provision Sprill System
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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Along Come How Informing Matter Mis Something Tyounester World
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Blue Green Life No Water
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.
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Anything Attitude Away Big Child Could Dispose Held Ocean Place Resilient Sea Ultimate Use Widely
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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Back Boat Buddy Care Come Confident Dive End Had Left Panic Take Where
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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Account Appetite Corporate Cost Encourage Fossil Fuel Major Mandate Maximize Ocean Shareholder Spill Value
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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Any Grow Up Hurry Nit
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

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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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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