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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

Sylvia Earle

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
If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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Earth Imagine Important IT Ocean Think Without
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Change Consequences Deepwater For Gusher Horizon Human Oil Over Place Responsible Spills Time Without
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Age Come Coral Have Ice Persist Reef
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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Acquainted Beautiful Butter Dee Everybody Fish Go Important Jump Lemon Ocean Slice Swim Swin Themselves To
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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Arctic Been Current During Historical History Human Icy Impact Largely Ocean Place Priced Real
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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Every Go Home Into Ocean Sip Time
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
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Always Compatible Men Said Top Underwater Women
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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All Bad Been Class Colege Deal Frequently Girl Only Science Such Through
My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Burd Known Lady Mother Neighborhood
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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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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Any Grow Up Hurry Nit
To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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