"Look at the bark of a redwood, and……" — Sylvia Earle
"Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city."
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Sylvia Earle
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93 Quotes by Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle has 93 quotes on this site.
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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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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love…
— Casey Affleck
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is…
— John Calvin
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I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be…
— Tucker Carlson
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to…
— Woody Allen
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
— Lord Byron
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
— Robert Frost
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
— Isaac Watts
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To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"
— David Ogilvy
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
— Heraclitus
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One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the…
— Peter of Blois
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