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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.

Sylvia Earle

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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All Grandchildren Greater Kid Kind Laugh Love Music Sound
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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Art Beautiful Flipper Modern Museum Pair Red Ruby
I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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Dream Fish Like Love One Only Sense Slip Would
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Advocate Conservation Driver Ocean Scuba Some Spent Strongest Surface Time
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Century Creature Depleted End Gulf Large Many Million Ninty Other Overfishing Percent Prospered Shark Tuttle Whale Year
And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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Degradation Factor Los No Preceded Question Resilience There
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
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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Arctic Been Current During Historical History Human Icy Impact Largely Ocean Place Priced Real
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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Area Barrel Country Dispersant Enormous Five Gallon Gulg Million Permanent Quantities Release Sudden
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
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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Agriculture Culture Downstream Drain Forty Gold Golf Lawn Mississippi Percent State Unit
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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Adapt Fin Fish Force Kind Love Really Special Use
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Bark Look Moss Redwood See
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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Around Belt Coral Few Good Harf Jeweled Middle Oyster Planet Prety Shape Still Time Turn
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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Back Dump Dumper Last Moxious One Repair Somebody Something
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

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