Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
SYLVIA EARLEIf you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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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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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.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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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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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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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 am not in any hurry to grow up.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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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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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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