With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
SYLVIA EARLEI have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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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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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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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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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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