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Sylvia Earle Quotes: It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.
         

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.


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



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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 have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.



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