Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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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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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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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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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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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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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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No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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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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