They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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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’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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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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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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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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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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