Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
SYLVIA EARLEThere are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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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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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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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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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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