Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.
Sylvia EarleRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Earth is unique in its ability to support life, emphasizing its value compared to other planets.
In this quote, Sylvia Earle highlights the extraordinary nature of Earth as a life-sustaining ecosystem. She points out the challenges and efforts required to replicate Earth's life-supporting conditions on other planets, like Mars, underscoring the importance of appreciating our home planet and the complexity of its ecosystems.
Themes
EarthEcosystemNatureLifeMarsUniqueness
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about climate change, you might say: 'As Sylvia Earle reminds us, Earth stands out in the universe for its ability to support life.'
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All quotes →I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time.
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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.
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There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean...We are learning otherwise.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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