Is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
SYLVIA EARLEEarth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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 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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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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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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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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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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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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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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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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Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
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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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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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