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Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Biologist
Botanist
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Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
S.A.Earle
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Knowledge is the key to making a difference.
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It is not too late to turn things around.
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The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.
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No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.
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The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That's why the ocean matters. 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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We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.
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The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.
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Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
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Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.
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We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.
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We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
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This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
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The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.
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