I personally have stopped eating seafood.
SYLVIA EARLEThat, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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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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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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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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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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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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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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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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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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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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