I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
SYLVIA EARLEIce ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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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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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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Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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