I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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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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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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
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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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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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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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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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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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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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