I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
SYLVIA EARLEYou don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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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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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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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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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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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 should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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