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 EARLEHealth to the ocean means health for us.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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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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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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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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