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we can't be happy or healthy if we don't take care of our life support system, the planet.

— Sylvia Earle with NPR (2021)

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

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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

Tom Robbins High Times interview (2002)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

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