I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
SYLVIA EARLEThe end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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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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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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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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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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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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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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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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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