They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
SYLVIA EARLENearly 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 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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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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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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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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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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