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There’s heaven on earth. It just happens to be in the ocean.

— Sylvia Earle with 'On Being (2018)

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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)

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)

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)

Highways crisscross the land, simultaneously forming pathways and barriers.

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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