Best quotes by Sylvia Earle on Life

Checkout quotes by Sylvia Earle on Life

• ‟ No water, no life. No blue, no green.

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• ‟ Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

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• ‟ Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

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• ‟ As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

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• ‟ Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

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• ‟ Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

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• ‟ If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

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• ‟ It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

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