As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
SYLVIA EARLEIce ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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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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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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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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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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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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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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