A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
SYLVIA EARLEOcean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
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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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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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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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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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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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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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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