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.
SYLVIA EARLEThe fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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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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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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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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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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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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