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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.

Sylvia Earle

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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Dream Fish Like Love One Only Sense Slip Would
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Against Fish Once Use Used War Weapon
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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Big Blue Country Fish Krill Percent Remain Sam Some Still Thing Whale
You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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Argue Arong Go Pay Responsible Stand
Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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Area Century Crush Displace Drilled Escape Gas Gulf Large Middle Mile More Pipeline Scrap Since
We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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Area Believe Change Disruption Elsewhere Global Make Mandates Matter System Taken Vulnerable Warming World
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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Done Down Ground Job Oil Once Remove Rig Right See Some These Who Would
I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
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Against Amount Conerm Consumption Destructive Extract Fish Human Industrial Large Modest Ocean Onglining Practices Really Scale Trawling Wildlife
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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Do Explore Health Help Hope Humankind Ocean Protect Restore Secure Wild
Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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Adapt Fin Fish Force Kind Love Really Special Use
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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Every Go Home Into Ocean Sip Time
The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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Deal Fact Governance Integrity Long Lose Oil Place Provision Sprill System
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Century Creature Depleted End Gulf Large Many Million Ninty Other Overfishing Percent Prospered Shark Tuttle Whale Year
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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All Earth Ecosystem Out Stand The Universe
They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Body Down Dream Lateral Like Line One Sense Shape Whole

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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