All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
SYLVIA EARLEI love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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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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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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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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