Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
SYLVIA EARLEI’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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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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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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Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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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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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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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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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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