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.
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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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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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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I 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.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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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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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
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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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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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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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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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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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