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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

Sylvia Earle

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Ask Attribute Best Explore Have Kid Question Scientist Sense Wonder
I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Eat Have Personally Seafood Stop
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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Effort Even Grant Great Housekeep Lace Life Mars Planet Recreate Set Sister Support Think Trouble
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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Encounter First Knock Ocean Old Over People Three Was Wave Year
The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Atten Certainly Exhilarating Freight More Ocean
They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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Ask Curiosity Five Just Live Old Question Stop Year
Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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Accelerate Consequence Greatly Impact Occur Oil Overshadowm Spill Put Slow Together Trend Warning
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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Big Care Harm Itself Matter Nothing Ocean Possible Somehow Vast
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Age Come Coral Have Ice Persist Reef
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
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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Adapt Fin Fish Force Kind Love Really Special Use
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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Dream Fish Like Love One Only Sense Slip Would
You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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Afraid Not Ocean Seen Shark Should You
The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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Basically Critical Important Land North Northern Ocean Owing Pole Surrounded Water
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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Biologist Diver Explore Friend Heart Occur People Person Spent Together Year
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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Able Around Dinosaur Hard Survive Time Transport Were

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