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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.
~ Sylvia Earle
Capability
Deal
Fact
Life
Long
Moved
Must
Oil
Place
Provisions
Size
Them
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It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.
~ Sylvia Earle
Drives
Feeding
Fishing
High-End
Luxury
Mainly
Market
Millions
Much
Now
Sea
Starving
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I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'
~ Sylvia Earle
Always
Compatible
Men
Men And Women
Said
Top
Underwater
Women
Women Are
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I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
~ Sylvia Earle
Along
Could
Had
Hours
I See
I Wish
Joy
Know
People
Sea
See
Spending
Take
Thousands
Wish
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Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
~ Sylvia Earle
Area
Behavior
Creatures
Critical
Future
Harm
Insurance
Just
Modify
Ocean
Our
Own
Place
Policies
Policy
Power
Protecting
Put
Sea
Special
Us
Ways
Would
Would-Be
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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
~ Sylvia Earle
20th Century
Area
Been
Being
Century
Crushed
Deliberately
Displaced
Escaped
Gas
Gulf
Large
Middle
Miles
More
Oil
Places
Protected
Since
Some
Than
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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.
~ Sylvia Earle
Almost
Almost Anything
Anything
Artificial
Forms
Life
Like
Natural
Ocean
Over
Shipwreck
Structure
Time
Whether
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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.
~ Sylvia Earle
Bark
Beneath
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Board
City
Environment
Feet
Forest
Host
I See
Insects
Life
Living
Look
Many
Miniature
Moss
Peer
Pieces
Prospers
Redwood
See
Small
Toad
Whole
Will
You
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Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
~ Sylvia Earle
Few
Land
Meat
Only
Plants
Pound
Pounds
Produce
Quickly
Relatively
Takes
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.
~ Sylvia Earle
Attention
Certainly
Encounter
Exhilarating
First
Frightening
Got
Jersey
Jersey Shore
Knocked
More
Ocean
Old
Over
Shore
Three
Wave
Years
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My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
~ Sylvia Earle
Always
Any
Anything
Bird
Come
Creature
Doorstep
Found
Injured
Known
Lady
Mother
Neighborhood
Our
Somebody
Unusual
Would
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
~ Sylvia Earle
Backyard
Florida
Gulf
Mexico
Moved
Parents
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
~ Sylvia Earle
About
Animals
Divisions
Half
Kinds
Land
Life
Major
Make
Nearly
Occur
Only
Sea
Them
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
~ Sylvia Earle
Creatures
Destroys
Ecosystems
Entire
Extraction
Few
Nothing
Other
Prepared
Sea
Sharks
Species
Targeting
While
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Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
~ Sylvia Earle
Accelerate
Acid
Atmosphere
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Consequences
Ever
Excess
Greatly
Impact
Increasingly
Occurred
Ocean
Oceans
Oil
Put
Slow
Together
Trend
Turning
Warming
Will
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
~ Sylvia Earle
Appear
Bottom
Closely
Creatures
First
Floor
Glance
Heads
Just
Like
Little
Look
Looks
Metropolis
Might
Mud
Out
Popping
Sand
Sandy
Sea
Show
Sit
Sort
Themselves
Wait
While
You
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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.
~ Sylvia Earle
Account
Appetite
Corporate
Costs
Drilling
Encourages
Even
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Insatiable
Major
Mandate
Maximize
Ocean
Our
Taking
Value
Without
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People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
~ Sylvia Earle
Ball
Biodiversity
Dead
Destructive
Fish
Fishing
Live
More
People
Still
Taking
Techniques
Than
Understand
Valuable
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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
~ Sylvia Earle
Amount
Atmosphere
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Chemistry
Hold
Most
Organisms
Oxygen
Planet
Planetary
Sea
Shape
Steady
Store
Take
Up
Vast
Yield
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
~ Sylvia Earle
Change
Consequences
Creatures
Fish
Horizon
Humans
Oil
Other
Over
Places
Responsible
Suffering
Time
Well
Without
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