They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
SYLVIA EARLEAnything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found 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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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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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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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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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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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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You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
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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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It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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