Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
SYLVIA EARLEI 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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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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We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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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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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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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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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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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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