You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
SYLVIA EARLEI hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could 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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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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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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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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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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