My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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 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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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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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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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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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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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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