We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
SYLVIA EARLEThe end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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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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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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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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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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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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