Biodiversity Quote by Sylvia Earle

“People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.”

Sylvia Earle

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I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

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If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

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The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

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