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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.

Sylvia Earle

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Century Creature Depleted End Gulf Large Many Million Ninty Other Overfishing Percent Prospered Shark Tuttle Whale Year
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Always Compatible Men Said Top Underwater Women
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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Basically Critical Important Land North Northern Ocean Owing Pole Surrounded Water
There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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Along Come How Informing Matter Mis Something Tyounester World
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.
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Dream Fish Like Love One Only Sense Slip Would
There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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Effort Even Grant Great Housekeep Lace Life Mars Planet Recreate Set Sister Support Think Trouble
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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Few Land Mature Meat One Plant Pound Produce Quickly Rear Relatively Take
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
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.
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Ask Curiosity Five Just Live Old Question Stop Year
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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All Bad Been Class Colege Deal Frequently Girl Only Science Such Through
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.
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Beneath Environment Host Insect Miniature Moss Peer Price Prosper See Small Toad Whole
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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Acquainted Beautiful Butter Dee Everybody Fish Go Important Jump Lemon Ocean Slice Swim Swin Themselves To
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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Area Barrel Country Dispersant Enormous Five Gallon Gulg Million Permanent Quantities Release Sudden
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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Done Down Ground Job Oil Once Remove Rig Right See Some These Who Would
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Before Century Commerce End Finish Fish Middle One Predict Twenty

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