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Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.

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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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Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.
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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.
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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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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.
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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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