Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
SYLVIA EARLEAnd there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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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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