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Quotes from The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One — Sylvia Earle

born 1935 United States

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As it turns out, the future of the ocean, the creatures who live there, and our own future are inextricably linked.

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)

Astronomer Carl Sagan noted that even when it is viewed from so far away that it is a pale dot, Earth is discernibly blue.

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)

Earth's life-support system-the ocean-is failing. But who is paying attention?

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)

Without the legions of minuscule organisms that have preceded us over the ages and whose descendants surround us and support us still, life as we know it could not exist.

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sylvia Earle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.