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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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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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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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.
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It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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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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