“Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.” PeopleFeelsNatureBuddhismMountainOceanLowsAreasPopulationDesertStillnessEnd TimesSpend TimeMe AloneAlone TimeDensityPopulation Density Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.” OceanAreasLists Author:Brian Boyle
“Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.” WayWould BeSeaSpecialPolicyCreaturesBehaviorOceanAreasCriticalHarmInsurance Policy Author:Sylvia Earle
“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.” IfsBodyEarthWaterForeverMaterialsMountainOceanAreasWeakOppositesAccountsHotWideSurfaceNineInvisibleIceChainsSandCentsLoadVolumeMudNinetyLoadedRemovalDepositsNinety NineUntouchablesLavaOcean Water Author:Reginald Aldworth Daly
“Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone.” PeopleIfsMenWayTryingI CanEnoughDiesAnimalGoneEnvironmentOceanResourcesAreasRiversSpeciesNuclearLocalsForestsLakesPollutionThreatenedOur EnvironmentMessing UpLakes And Rivers Author:Olivia Newton-John
“Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.” MayProblemOpportunityWaterLevelsAttentionTalkingSeaOceanAreasObviousWarmIceIslandsRisingVillainFloodHurricanesMeltingLanesLouisianaArcticKatrinaNew OpportunityShippingHurricane KatrinaCoastal Author:Mark Powell
“Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.” IfsMenHumansLittlesTwoSometimesStatesDoneThreeBitsStepsRightsMovementOceanLittle BitSurvivalAreasFolksHuman RightsGenderWorking ItTransgenderKenyaGrandpaHutsTanzaniaJackals Author:Kate Bornstein
“The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.” EnergyAnimalLandSourceOceanMassResourcesAreasTradePlantCommerceMineralsPlants And AnimalsAnimal LifeEnergy SourcesJurisdictionTotemsOffshoreMineral Resources Author:Tom Allen
“Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.” MenWorldUseEarthResultsMillionsSkyPlanetsWasteOceanCreatingPercentResourcesAreasRiversNuclearGlobal WarmingToxicEighty Author:Benjamin Creme
“Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.” PeopleHumansMeanLyingStuffAbilityLevelsSituationSawsRiskSeaLike YouTypeOceanLowsAreasRiversStormRisingDestructiveFarmsNew OrleansFrequencyKatrinaBangladeshDeltaSanitationBacking Up Author:Bill Gates
“We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a lot of different boards trying to help in those important areas.” WorldNeedsTryingImportantDifferentCountryHelpingProblemBigsDealsFiveAirOceanAreasOvercomingAround The WorldBoardsGreat MenPlasticPollutionAir Pollution Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“The most important thing we can do to save our oceans is to dramatically expand our efforts to establish new marine protected areas and make sure that critical fish spawning sites and ecosystems remain undisturbed.” ImportantCan DoEffortOceanAreasImportant ThingsFishesCriticalProtectedSiteMarineEcosystems Author:Serge Dedina
“I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this, we need the latest technology applied to large pelagic fish and sharks, surveillance technology that helps protect marine protected areas, and tags that help prevent shark finning and illegal fishing. We must use modern sensors to help protect our seas!” WantNeedsHelpingUseTechnologySeaModernProtectOceanAreasFishesFishingIllegalProtectedMarineSurveillanceSharksTagSensorsLatest TechnologyPoachers Author:Barbara Block
“When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.” UsedLossTreeOceanLowsAreasMovedFilledTinyShoreMexicoTidesFloridaShallowJerseyMeadowsParkingNew JerseyBackyardsParking LotBay AreaGulf Of MexicoShoreline Author:Sylvia Earle