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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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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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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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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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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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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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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 actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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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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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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