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Sylvia Earle

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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Able Back Billio Earth Magical Old Ourselves Survive Transport Year Young
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Bark Look Moss Redwood See
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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Do Explore Health Help Hope Humankind Ocean Protect Restore Secure Wild
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
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
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
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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Area Century Crush Displace Drilled Escape Gas Gulf Large Middle Mile More Pipeline Scrap Since
Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Acid Acidification Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Excess Increase Ocean Turn
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
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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Anyone Better Can Leave Everyone Found Have Heroes Lot World
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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Acquainted Beautiful Butter Dee Everybody Fish Go Important Jump Lemon Ocean Slice Swim Swin Themselves To
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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Mindset Need Planet Take Care Terrestrial Terrible
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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Care Dependent Do Live Need Ocean Respect Take Them They
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Ask Attribute Best Explore Have Kid Question Scientist Sense Wonder
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
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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Aggressive Appreciate Been Extracting Far Limit Ocean Point Return Too Wildlife

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