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When you are a child you learn your alphabet, your numbers, but increasingly, we must learn from the earliest stages that the highest priority has to be to maintain the world as a safe place for humankind.

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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
Biologist
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Marine Biologist
Oceanographer
Gibbstown
New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
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