Best quotes by Sylvia Earle on Ocean

Checkout quotes by Sylvia Earle on Ocean

• ‟ Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

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• ‟ Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.

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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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• ‟ Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

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• ‟ Health to the ocean means health for us.

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• ‟ Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

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• ‟ I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

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• ‟ The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

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• ‟ We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

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