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.
SYLVIA EARLEThey 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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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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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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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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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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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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