In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
SYLVIA EARLEIt’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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
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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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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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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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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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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
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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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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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We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
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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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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
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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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