Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
SYLVIA EARLETo lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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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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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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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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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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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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