A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
SYLVIA EARLEIn terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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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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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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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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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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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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