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Sylvia Earle

American Scientist

Born: Aug 30, 1935

Life Ocean People Time Will You

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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act. Sylvia Earle

You Yourself Wait Care Mirror Else About Someone Take Doing Up Hold Capable Ask Then Really Act Initiative

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too. Sylvia Earle

Love Music Too Kids Laughing Kinds Greater Sound Than Grandchildren

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted. Sylvia Earle

Gone Come Ice Ages Coral

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. Sylvia Earle

Environmental Time Good Half Big Few Bay Some Pretty Pretty Good Percent Ten Good Shape Remain Shape Around Still Antarctica Fish Big Fish Lot Whales Blue Middle Turn Planet Things Coral Belt

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. Sylvia Earle

Life You Will Insects Living Beneath Peer Bits Bits And Pieces Miniature City See Small Host Environment Feet Prospers Moss Look Pieces Redwood Forest Board Toad Bark Many Whole Lumber

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world. Sylvia Earle

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay. Sylvia Earle

You Enemy Pay Everybody Responsible See About Attacking Arguing Pick Around Sake Up Going Heaven Stand Enlist

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. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating. Sylvia Earle

Old Three First Ocean Wave More Attention Over Knocked Got Exhilarating Years Encounter Frightening Shore Certainly Jersey Jersey Shore

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. Sylvia Earle

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans? Sylvia Earle

Life Ocean Few Ghastly Destroying Pounds Bottom Catch Support Ecosystem Untold Protein Oceans Beds Sake Process Land Sea Using Whole Why Butterfly Brings Damage

Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function. Sylvia Earle

Food Water Ocean Every Back Way Food Chain Part Leads Also Makes Fish Ultimately Yields Oxygen Planet Chain Function Carbon

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences. Sylvia Earle

Time Change Suffering Consequences Other Responsible Horizon Over Well Without Fish Oil Places Creatures Humans

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter. Sylvia Earle

Beautiful Important Ocean Swimming Everybody See Rather How Fish Go Jump Than Get Just Want Lemon Acquainted Themselves Butter

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it. Sylvia Earle

You Power Everyone Use Help

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it's in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter. Sylvia Earle

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining. Sylvia Earle

Ocean Wildlife Out Destructive About Consumption Like Industrial Concerned Practices Am Fishing Human Against Modest Really Large-Scale Amount

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady. Sylvia Earle

Chemistry Atmosphere Steady Vast Shape Take Most Up Yield Oxygen Store Hold Planet Planetary Organisms Sea Carbon Carbon Dioxide Amount

Health to the ocean means health for us. Sylvia Earle

Health Ocean Us Means

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