Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
SYLVIA EARLEI have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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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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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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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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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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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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