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.
SYLVIA EARLEMeat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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’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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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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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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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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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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