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.
SYLVIA EARLEIn terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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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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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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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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The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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