You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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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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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea.
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Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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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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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.
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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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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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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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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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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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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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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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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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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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