You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
SYLVIA EARLEFor heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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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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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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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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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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