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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.

Sylvia Earle

My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Burd Known Lady Mother Neighborhood
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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Appear Button Closely Creature First Floor Glance Look Must Nud Sandy Sea Sort Themselves Wait
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
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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Away Far Greatest Ignorance Ocean Ourselves Sometimes Threat
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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Ability Around Creature Deep Dive Fly Globe High Human Instant Message Onky Sea Sly
Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power
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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Arctic Cost Diameter Everywhere Lose Mean People System Vital Work
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Mean Ocean Us
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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Animal Beautiful Enough Healthy Lot Lucky Mean Ocean Shark Them
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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Base End Garbage Life Nuclear Reach Sewage Ship Studge Useful Waste
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Blue Green Life No Water
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
I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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Any Grow Up Hurry Nit
As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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Big Care Harm Itself Matter Nothing Ocean Possible Somehow Vast

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