I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
SYLVIA EARLEI actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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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 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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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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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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They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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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 ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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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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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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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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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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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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Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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