All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
SYLVIA EARLEYou should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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As if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act.
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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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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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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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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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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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