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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.

Sylvia Earle

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
SYLVIA EARLE

Actual Daytime Die Fish Lot Love Night See
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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Anyone Astronaut Can Everyone Everything Hero Learn Life Support System
Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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Biologist Diver Explore Friend Heart Occur People Person Spent Together Year
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
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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Bear Condition Country Harsh Harshly Human Inhospitable People Place Polar Precise Require Survive Thrive
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
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
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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Area Believe Change Disruption Elsewhere Global Make Mandates Matter System Taken Vulnerable Warming World
For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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Attack Enemy Enlist Everybody Heaven Pick Pitchfork Sake See
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 best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Ask Attribute Best Explore Have Kid Question Scientist Sense Wonder
Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Acid Acidification Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Excess Increase Ocean Turn
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Blue Degradation Even Fragility Heart Our Planet

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