America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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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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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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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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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To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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