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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.

Sylvia Earle

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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Acquainted Beautiful Butter Dee Everybody Fish Go Important Jump Lemon Ocean Slice Swim Swin Themselves To
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Always Compatible Men Said Top Underwater Women
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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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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Degradation Factor Los No Preceded Question Resilience There
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Age Come Coral Have Ice Persist Reef
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
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Accelerate Consequence Greatly Impact Occur Oil Overshadowm Spill Put Slow Together Trend Warning
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
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Mean Ocean Us
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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Aggressive Appreciate Been Extracting Far Limit Ocean Point Return Too Wildlife
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
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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Beneath Environment Host Insect Miniature Moss Peer Price Prosper See Small Toad Whole
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
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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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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