If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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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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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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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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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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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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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