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.
SYLVIA EARLEI personally have stopped eating seafood.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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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.
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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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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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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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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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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 ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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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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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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