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3 years

Think of yourself as a part of the natural world and not just the human world.

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The ocean is truly what keeps us alive. And we have to return the favor.

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On ten separate occasions, I was fortunate enough to live underwater. Spending so much time underwater led to a breakthrough: I got to know fish as individuals. They do not behave the same. They each have their own attitude.

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My deepest congratulations to Ecuador on the expansion of the Galápagos Marine Reserve, and to Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and all involved on the historic announcement of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor at #COP26 .

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No ocean, no life. No ocean, no us.

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The ocean is so much more than fish! Think carbon cycle, think climate, think the chemistry of the planet that has shaped all life on Earth.

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How could you not love the sea? The sea makes life possible.

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4 years

When I discovered the ocean, and the things in the ocean that you don't see anywhere else… I fell in love!

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6 years

The next 10 years will be the most important in the next 10,000 years in terms of shaping a future where humans can have a hope for an enduring place within the natural systems that keep us alive.

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The ocean is the blue heart of our planet, and if there’s no blue, there’s no green.

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6 years

We need to convey a sense of urgency because the world is changing. The next ten years is likely to be the most important time in the next 10,000 years. We have options that we are going to lose within ten years unless we take action now.

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No blue, no green. No ocean, no us.

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4 years

I do not think of myself as an activist. I think of myself as a witness.

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3 years

Saving the ocean is a team sport - no one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

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4 years

The ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the ocean are one.

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4 years

The ocean is the planet's life support system, shaping climate and weather, generating oxygen, capturing carbon dioxide, governing the planetary processes that make Earth hospitable to life.

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

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6 years

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

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3 years

You can't address climate change without taking care of the ocean.

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4 years

The ocean is so much more than fish! Think carbon cycle, think climate, think the chemistry of the planet that has shaped all life on Earth.

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3 years

You've got to take care of the ocean or nothing else matters.

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3 years

You can't take care of climate change without taking care of the ocean.

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5 years

The joy of being a scientist and explorer is you never cease being surprised. It's just impossible to be bored!

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5 years

Protecting nature is not a luxury; it is absolutely vital to everything we care about, including life itself.

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2 years

There are plenty of reasons for hope, and that's what keeps me going.

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3 years

The ocean is the blue heart of the planet. It drives climate and weather. It generates most of the oxygen in the atmosphere. We have taken it for granted through most of our history, and we can't take it for granted anymore. The ocean is in trouble.

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4 years

It should be obvious that we are a part of nature, not apart from nature, and that what we do to the living world we do to ourselves.

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5 years

Without the blue, there is no green.

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3 years

My dream is for everyone to use all means at their disposal to spark a movement to create a global network of marine protected areas - Hope Spots - large enough to save and restore the ocean. Our fate and the ocean's are one. #SustainableWithNiantic

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6 years

We're all connected. Whether you're a little anemone living under the sea, a pine tree on top of a mountain or a human living in a city, we all share the same basic DNA, with infinite complexity and infinite variation that sets us all apart not just as species but as individuals.

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5 years

The sea is home to most of the life on Earth (and, as far as we know, in the universe). All life needs water and 97 percent of Earth's water is ocean. No ocean, no life. No blue, no green. No us, either.

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6 years

For the first - and maybe the last - time in history, we have a chance to make peace with the ocean and the rest of the living world, and in so doing, secure an enduring place for ourselves on this small blue part of the universe.

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3 years

I see the ocean as something far more complex than just a system that is there for humans to extract as much as we can, as fast as we can, without really understanding the consequences to ocean chemistry, to the carbon cycle, to our life support system.

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4 years

The ocean is a living system that makes our lives possible. Even if you never see the ocean, your life depends on its existence. With every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, you are connected to the sea.

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5 years

I think one of the biggest discoveries that has been made in my lifetime is recognition that humankind is absolutely dependent on the natural world.

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2 years

For me, a Hope Spot is any place in the ocean that is still in pretty good shape, that if we act now and protect, it’s a cause for hope.

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5 years

Every breath we take is linked to the sea.

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5 years

We must take care of the ocean. We must take care of the natural world from the skies above to the depths below.

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3 years

We will fail if we don't respect the ocean.

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3 years

The joy of being a scientist and explorer is you do what children do. You ask questions like: Who? What? Why? When? Where? How? And you never stop, and you never cease being surprised. It’s just impossible to be bored.

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3 years

We need a change of heart to go back to that basic sense of wonder and appreciation that we are part of nature.

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5 years

We are all together in this single living ecosystem called Planet Earth.

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3 years

It's a living ocean. It's a living planet and our lives are dependent on it. Just in my lifetime, it's clear to see how much we have learned and at the same time, how much we've lost.

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4 years

Be a voice for the ocean. Fish don't vote. When ‘stakeholders’ gather to decide the fate of the ocean, the children of today and tomorrow are not present. Who will speak for them if we don't?

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3 years

The sooner we exercise our power to protect what remains of the systems that keep us alive, the better it will be.

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6 years

Think of yourself as a part of the natural world and not just the human world.

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3 years

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.

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4 years

The next five years may be the most important in the next ten thousand for our planet. There are plenty of reasons for hope, yet every day, doors of opportunity close. We know what to do. Now is the time to act.

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3 years

The good news is that we are beginning to look at things differently. We are experiencing a new wave of understanding about why the ocean matters.

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2 years

If you look at the stars at night, they are beautiful, but they’re terrifyingly inhospitable. Imagine trying to live on the sun. Earth is a miracle. Our existence is a miracle.

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2 years

What do you care about? Your health, security, the economy? Then you have to care what we are doing to the planet and the ocean.

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2 years

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.

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4 years

No one person can do everything, but every person can do something.

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4 years

We have learned more in these 50 years than in all human history, but we have also lost more. I invite you to raise your voice, to do everything possible to take care of the ocean that takes care of us.

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6 years

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

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2 years

We are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet Earth.

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3 years

Imagine what it’s like to go where you have a mile of water over your head. It’s dark, but it’s beautiful.

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5 years

Thank the ocean with every breath you take.

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3 years

Only our planet has an ocean filled with life that makes our lives possible. It's time for us to return the favor and take care of the ocean that takes care of us.

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5 years

We've reached a time when we really have to choose between our wants and our needs, and we need a planet that works.

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7 years

Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.

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7 years

I am honored to be surrounded by a group of trailblazing women in @TIME Magazine's Firsts project.

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6 years

The ocean is so blue. When you try to describe how many shades of blue, there are no names for most of them.

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2 years

You can't take care of climate change without taking care of the ocean.

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6 years

Human beings are sea creatures, dependent on the ocean just as much as whales, herring or coral reefs.

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5 years

The good news is nature is resilient. Places that have been protected in the last 10 years show remarkable capacity to improve.

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3 years

One of the most important trends is the awareness and willingness to embrace places and to recognize that protecting nature, the natural systems, have benefits back to us in terms not just of better health, not just because they're beautiful - it's necessary for our existence.

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3 years

Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks!

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6 years

I have lots of heroes; anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

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6 years

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

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5 years

We need to do everything in our power to protect and restore what we can - as if our lives depend on it. Because they do.

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3 years

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that’s hospitable for humankind. And that’s because we have the ocean.

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5 years

I always wanted to be a scientist. I always wanted to do something that would keep me asking questions, exploring, and getting to know life on Earth.

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6 years

My advice to those who are considering diving is: go for it today… Don't wait! My mother waited until she was 81 in Bonaire. Afterwards she scolded me and asked why I hadn't gotten her in the water sooner. I recommend just doing it regardless of your age - and diving is ageless.

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6 years

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor. And if you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it.

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3 years

We need to do everything in our power to protect and restore what we can - as if our lives depend on it. Because they do.

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4 years

I think all kids start out as explorers. I think even all of you, whoever you are or wherever you are, you don't lose that part of being a kid, asking questions: who, what, why, where, when, how? That's what explorers do. That's what scientists do.

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6 years

Earth is where the strange and wonderful creatures exist! You don't have to use your imagination, you can just dive into the sea.

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4 years

We have to represent those who are not at the table. We must give the ocean a voice!

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3 years

Once we stop killing fish at an industrial level, there is a chance that the pattern of alarming destruction that I have witnessed in my lifetime can become a time of recovery.

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3 years

I see the ocean as something far more complex than just a system that is there for humans to extract as much as we can, as fast as we can, without really understanding the consequences to ocean chemistry, to the carbon cycle, to our life support system.

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6 years

We need people from all backgrounds and professions to raise awareness and inspire empathy about issues affecting the ocean like climate change, ocean acidification, overfishing, and pollution among their communities and constituents.

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4 years

Only 5 percent of the ocean has been seen, let alone mapped or explored. We know how to exploit the sea. Should we not first go see what is there?

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6 years

What I love about the ocean is you never know who you're going to see or what you're going to do, but it’s always going to be good. It’s always going to be a thrill.

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4 years

We are the luckiest generation ever to come along, because of the superpower of knowing what we could not know before.

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2 years

We are all sea creatures in a way. We're all dependent on the ocean, even if you've never seen the ocean or thought about the ocean, the ocean keeps you alive and the ocean needs your help at this point in history.

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5 years

A healthy, functioning ocean is what makes life on Earth possible. No blue, no green.

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6 years

The value of sharks’ lives is now widely understood to be more important than their value as products. And when you have sharks in an area, it’s a sign of good health.

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3 years

Coral reefs are not just about the coral and great kelp forests are not just about the kelp - it's about the sea creatures.

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3 years

We live because the ocean drives planetary chemistry and keeps us secure in the universe of a really impossible options. There really is no other place suitable for 8 billion people or more or less.

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3 years

We've got to take care of the ocean, and understand why the ocean matters.

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5 years

We have to realize that the most important thing we take from the ocean is not minerals, not oil, not gas, not fish, not lobsters, not oysters – not a lot of things. It’s our existence.

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4 years

When rain comes from the sky, it’s the ocean touching you. When you breathe air, it’s the ocean touching you. Our living ocean generates the oxygen, driving the great systems that keep us alive.

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6 years

The ocean needs a good voice, a steady, constant voice that highlights what’s going on and makes it relevant to people.

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3 years

People ask me, sometimes, “Where’s the best place to go diving?” And I say: almost anywhere, 50 years ago. 50 years is a horizon, in terms of change - more change, truly, than during all preceding human history.

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6 years

When I was at a place called Marion Reef in the Coral Sea Hope Spot, diving in 70 feet of water, and these grey reef sharks circled us. I could not count them, there were so many – at least 100. They were forming a great wheel around us but were quietly curious, not aggressive.

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6 years

I applaud Belize on their effort to end all oil operations in their ocean waters! Let's follow their example!

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2 years

Our existence depends on the healthy ocean that has taken a very long time to shape the planet in ways that favor us. It’s taken us a short time to disrupt those very basic systems, but it’s not too late to turn the corner.

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5 years

It’s not the fault of the plastic. It’s what we do when we're through with it. And not thinking about start to finish. We often use it once and then throw it away! We're just starting to discover that there is no away. It’s all still here.

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Our oceans are at a tipping point, which means we still have a chance to tip things back in the right direction—if we act now!

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