I am not in any hurry to grow up.
SYLVIA EARLEThere’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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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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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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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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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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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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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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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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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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