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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

Sylvia Earle

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
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
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
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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Breath Connect Drink Drop Every Sea Take Water
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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Arctic Been Current During Historical History Human Icy Impact Largely Ocean Place Priced Real
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
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Advocate Conservation Driver Ocean Scuba Some Spent Strongest Surface Time
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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Alter Become Effective Fright Nature
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
You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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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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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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Back Boat Buddy Care Come Confident Dive End Had Left Panic Take Where
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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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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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.
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