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.
SYLVIA EARLEFar and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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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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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
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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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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
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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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I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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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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