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You take care of your personal health because you want to live a long time, and you want to be happy. You want to be healthy. But we can't be happy or healthy if we don't take care of our life support system, the planet.

— Sylvia Earle

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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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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I’m still alive.

Suman Pokhrel

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