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 EARLESharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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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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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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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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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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Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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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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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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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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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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