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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.
~ Sylvia Earle
About
Act
Ask
Capable
Care
Doing
Else
Hold
Initiative
Mirror
Really
Someone
Take
Then
Up
Wait
You
Yourself
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Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
~ Sylvia Earle
Ability
Around
Assess
Creatures
Deep
Dive
Fly
Future
Globe
High
Humans
Imagine
Instant
Messages
Only
Past
Present
Reflect
Sea
Send
Sky
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.
~ Sylvia Earle
Actually
Daytime
Diving
Fish
Lot
Love
Night
See
Then
You
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I am not in any hurry to grow up.
~ Sylvia Earle
Am
Any
Grow
Grow Up
Hurry
I Am
Up
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
~ Sylvia Earle
Find
Irresistible
Lure
Unknown
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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
~ Sylvia Earle
Back
Boat
Buddy
Care
Come
Confident
Did
Dive
End
Had
Left
Panic
Take
Take Care
Up
Where
Who
Would
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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
~ Sylvia Earle
Could
Endlessly
Fish
Heard
Learning
Otherwise
Resilient
Species
Way
You
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
~ Sylvia Earle
Anyone
Better
Does
Everyone
Found
Heroes
Leave
Lots
Natural
Natural World
Than
Whatever
Who
World
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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.
~ Sylvia Earle
Grandchildren
Greater
I Love
Kids
Kinds
Laughing
Love
Music
Sound
Than
Too
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I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
~ Sylvia Earle
Adapted
Art
Beautiful
Call
Efficient
Fish
Force
Forces
I Love
Kind
Love
Modern
Modern Art
Museum
Pair
Really
Red
Ruby
Set
Special
Special Forces
Them
Use
Very
Which
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
~ Sylvia Earle
Eating
Personally
Seafood
Stopped
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I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
~ Sylvia Earle
Acquainted
Beautiful
Butter
Everybody
Fish
Get
Go
How
Important
Jump
Just
Lemon
Ocean
Rather
See
Swimming
Than
Themselves
Want
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
~ Sylvia Earle
About
Body
Does
Down
Dream
Fish
I Can
Know
Like
Line
Love
Maybe
More
Motion
Only
Senses
Skin
Slip
Than
Whole
Would
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Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
~ Sylvia Earle
Ages
Come
Coral
Gone
Ice
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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
~ Sylvia Earle
Back
Call
Damage
Last
Repair
Somebody
Something
Would
Yard
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
~ Sylvia Earle
Able
Around
Back
Billion
Could
Dinosaurs
Earth
Four
Hard
Hard Time
Old
Only
Ourselves
Survive
Surviving
Three
Time
To Survive
Transport
Two
Were
Would
Years
Young
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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.
~ Sylvia Earle
Earth
Imagine
Important
Life
Mars
Mind
No Life
Ocean
Support
System
Think
Without
You
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I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
~ Sylvia Earle
Because
Biologist
Cameron
Conferences
Each
Explorer
Friends
He
Heart
Hearts
His
James
Other
Over
Run
Scientific
Spent
Time
Together
Years
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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.
~ Sylvia Earle
About
Against
Am
Amount
Concerned
Consumption
Destructive
Fishing
Human
I Am
Industrial
Large-Scale
Like
Modest
Ocean
Out
Practices
Really
Wildlife
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In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
~ Sylvia Earle
About
Carefully
Choices
Get
More
Our
Personal
Protein
Terms
Think
Where
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