"As a child, I was aware of the……" — Sylvia Earle
"As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything 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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93 Quotes by Sylvia Earle
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and,…
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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad…
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Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
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I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
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The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.
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I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
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People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system,…
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I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our…
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There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
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Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath…
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the…
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We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we…
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