Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
SYLVIA EARLEAll through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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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 love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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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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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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