If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
SYLVIA EARLEWe need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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There’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.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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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 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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Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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