We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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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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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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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 am not in any hurry to grow up.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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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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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything.
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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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There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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