I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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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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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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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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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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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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