I am not in any hurry to grow up.

Sylvia Earle

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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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Even Grant Housekeep Lace Mars Recreate Set Sister Think
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’

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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Compatible Said Top Underwater
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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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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Area Century Crush Displace Drilled Escape Gas Gulf Large Middle Mile More Pipeline Scrap Since
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.

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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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Breath Drink Every Take
Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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Back Carbon Every Fertilize Generate Grap Oxygen Plankton Ultimately Way
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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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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Actual Daytime Lot See
It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?

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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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Akin Builddoze Destry Ecosystem Pound Protein Sale Using Whole
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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Base End Garbage Nuclear Sewage Ship Studge Useful
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

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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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Backyard Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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Governance Long Oil Provision Sprill System
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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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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Arctic Carbon Dioxide Excess Melt Precede Stunning Temperature Vulnerable
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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Acquainted Butter Dee Everybody Go Jump Lemon Slice Swim Swin Themselves To
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.

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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Bark Moss Redwood See
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.

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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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Being Both Bottom Damage Ghastly Trawling Untold
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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Few Mature Meat One Pound Quickly Rear Relatively Take
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.

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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Advocate Driver Scuba Some Spent Strongest

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

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