I am not in any hurry to grow up.
SYLVIA EARLEIt’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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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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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To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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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.
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
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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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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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