Health to the ocean means health for us.
SYLVIA EARLE
You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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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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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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