Health to the ocean means health for us.
SYLVIA EARLEI 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the ‘National Geographic’ covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
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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 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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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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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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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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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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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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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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Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.
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