Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
SYLVIA EARLEThere’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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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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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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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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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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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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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