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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.

Sylvia Earle

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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Could Endless Exterminate Fish Have Learn No Otherwise Resilient Species Way
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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Appear Button Closely Creature First Floor Glance Look Must Nud Sandy Sea Sort Themselves Wait
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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Bear Condition Country Harsh Harshly Human Inhospitable People Place Polar Precise Require Survive Thrive
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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Mindset Need Planet Take Care Terrestrial Terrible
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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Actual Daytime Die Fish Lot Love Night See
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
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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Hour I Joy Kow People Sea Spend Take Thousand Under What Wish
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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Country Freedom Gain Goal Government Great Individual Interface Most Personal Pursue Undue
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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Fish Hundred might Million People Reason Scientific Technology Ten Treatise Underwater Write
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Mean Ocean Us
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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Animal Beautiful Enough Healthy Lot Lucky Mean Ocean Shark Them
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.
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Adapt Fin Fish Force Kind Love Really Special Use
We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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Base End Garbage Life Nuclear Reach Sewage Ship Studge Useful Waste
Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power

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