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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

Sylvia Earle

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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Along Come How Informing Matter Mis Something Tyounester World
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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Ask Curiosity Five Just Live Old Question Stop Year
They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Body Down Dream Lateral Like Line One Sense Shape Whole
Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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Back Carbon Chain Every Fertilize Fish Food Generate Grap Lead Oxygen Plankton Ultimately Water Way
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Change Consequences Deepwater For Gusher Horizon Human Oil Over Place Responsible Spills Time Without
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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Anyone Astronaut Can Everyone Everything Hero Learn Life Support System
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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Capability Commensurate Deal Fact Life Long Move Oil Place Provision Shipments Size Spill
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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Big Blue Country Fish Krill Percent Remain Sam Some Still Thing Whale
If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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Able Back Billio Earth Magical Old Ourselves Survive Transport Year Young
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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Ask Capable Care Do Hold Initiative Mirror Really Take Up What Yourself
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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Dream Fish Like Love One Only Sense Slip Would
Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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Always Anything Come Creature Doorstep Found Injured Somebody Unusual
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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Deal Fact Governance Integrity Long Lose Oil Place Provision Sprill System
I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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Any Grow Up Hurry Nit
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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All Grandchildren Greater Kid Kind Laugh Love Music Sound

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