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" Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. "

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" If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system. "

" I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know. "

" I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too. "

" No water, no life. No blue, no green. "

" Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted. "

" By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. "

" On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis. "

" Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future. "

" We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature. "

" 'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. "

" Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here. "

" We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do. "

" Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater. "

" What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. "

" My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. "

" Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function. "

" The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. "

" Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. "

" I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime. "

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" Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences. "

" I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that. "

" In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from. "

" My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating. "

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

" People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity. "

" For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay. "

" I am not in any hurry to grow up. "