I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
SYLVIA EARLEThere is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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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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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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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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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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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 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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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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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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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