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Health to the ocean means health for us.

Sylvia Earle

They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Body Down Dream Lateral Like Line One Sense Shape Whole
It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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Arctic Carbon Dioxide Excess History Human Melt Planet Precede Stunning Temperature Vulnerable
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
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Creaturem Industrial Destroy Ecosystem Extraction Krill Nothing Other Prepare Scala Sea Shark Squid
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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Appear Button Closely Creature First Floor Glance Look Must Nud Sandy Sea Sort Themselves Wait
Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean.
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Animal Beautiful Enough Healthy Lot Lucky Mean Ocean Shark Them
Health to the ocean means health for us.
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For Health Ocean Us
A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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Board City Feet Forest Live Look Lumberman Many See Tumbler Will
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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Backyard Country Gulf Move My Parent Twelve
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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Concept Concern Energy Future Heart Mind Peak Penetrate People
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty.
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Advocate Conservation Driver Ocean Scuba Some Spent Strongest Surface Time
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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All Dead Destructive Fish More Not One People Still Take Technique Understand Valuable
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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Along Come How Informing Matter Mis Something Tyounester World
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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Every Go Home Into Ocean Sip Time
They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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Ask Curiosity Five Just Live Old Question Stop Year
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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Away Far Greatest Ignorance Ocean Ourselves Sometimes Threat

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