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.
SYLVIA EARLEI am not in any hurry to grow up.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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