I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
SYLVIA EARLEWe 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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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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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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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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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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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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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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