In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
SYLVIA EARLEHumans 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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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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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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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