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Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.

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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Biologist
Botanist
Explorer
Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
S.A.Earle
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Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.
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In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.
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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.
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It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
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Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.
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Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the things that we put into the air, into the water - of the way we treat life on Earth.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.
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It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
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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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Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.
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Never before have we known what we know.
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