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Knowledge is the key to making a difference.

Sylvia Earle

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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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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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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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For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.
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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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Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the we. It's the social connections that are special to human beings.
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I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing my kids, too.
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The opportunity that is unique [to our] time is what inspires me to do everything I can to move things forward. This is the first time that we have the capacity to understand our place in the greater scheme of things to the extent that we do.
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The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.
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I am driven by what I know that the world I love is in trouble.
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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.
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We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.
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Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
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We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.
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Look at a child and realize that their future is in your hands. It's not just those who will be here fifty years from now. The decisions we make in the next ten years will shape the next 10,000 years.
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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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If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.
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There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.
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Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.
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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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