All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
SYLVIA EARLEWhen I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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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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The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.
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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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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
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