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.
SYLVIA EARLEI am not in any hurry to grow up.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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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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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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To 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.
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That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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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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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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