With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
SYLVIA EARLEAnything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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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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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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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’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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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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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.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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