In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
SYLVIA EARLEAll through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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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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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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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.
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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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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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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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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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