Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
SYLVIA EARLEA lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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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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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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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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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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