They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
SYLVIA EARLEPeople 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful 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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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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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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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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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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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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