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.
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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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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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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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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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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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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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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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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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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