I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
SYLVIA EARLEAmerica gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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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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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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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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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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We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.
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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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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 personally have stopped eating seafood.
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