"If you ask the fish whether they'd rather……" — Carl Safina
"If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout."
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25 Quotes by Carl Safina
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We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in…
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We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a…
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The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take…
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For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision…
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time.…
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[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up.…
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If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.
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A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can…
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Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine…
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The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for…
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Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from…
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