They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
SYLVIA EARLEIf you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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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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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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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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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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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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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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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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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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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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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.
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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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