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Oceanographer Inspirational Quotes (243)

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The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
Robert Ballard
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A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
Richard E. Byrd
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The greatest discoveries all start with the question Why?
Robert Ballard
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Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
Robert Ballard
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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
Sylvia Earle
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We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.
Sylvia Earle
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There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.
Sylvia Earle
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Globally sharks have been killed for their fins, for their cartilage, for their livers, for their meat. But mostly what has driven some species of sharks to near extinction - including the hammerhead shark - is the new luxury taste for shark fin soup.
Sylvia Earle
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People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.
Walter Munk
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The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.
Sylvia Earle
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We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.
Sylvia Earle
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
Sylvia Earle
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In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.
Sylvia Earle
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.
Sylvia Earle
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When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of us, to our horror, we've realized that this has the potential for burning brightly and then snuffing out.
Sylvia Earle
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
Sylvia Earle
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There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up.
Sylvia Earle
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It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.
Sylvia Earle
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Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
Sylvia Earle
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My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.
Robert Ballard
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We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.
Sylvia Earle
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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