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.
SYLVIA EARLETen percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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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 am not in any hurry to grow up.
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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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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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