Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
SYLVIA EARLEThere 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
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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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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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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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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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