In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
SYLVIA EARLEIf somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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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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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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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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