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• I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

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  Nature, Struggle, Logical

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• The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

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  Compassion, Giving, Might

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.407, Henry Holt and Company

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• Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

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  Children, Compassion, Justice For All

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.116, Macmillan

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• La costa es un lugar tenso. Vivir en la costa presenta ciertas realidades crudas y una belleza salvaje y rara. El continente se enfrenta al océano. El tiempo se intensifica. Es un lugar de mareas y berrinches; de coqueteos entre aguas dulces y saladas, bosques y costas; de tensas negociaciones con un océano que da mucho pero exige más. Cada año, el borde en bruto que es esta costa es martilleado y remodelado como bronce fundido. Este lugar bulle de poder y de una belleza a veces terrible. La costa sigue siendo joven, atrevida, incierta sobre el mañana. Las conjeturas, el riesgo; en cierto modo, aquí todos somos buscadores de emociones.

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  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

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  Children, Compassion, Justice

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• [About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

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  Spring, Reading, Science

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• Para cada uno de nosotros, por tanto, el reto y la oportunidad consisten en apreciar toda la vida como el don que es, concebirla en su totalidad, tratar de conocerla verdaderamente y comprometernos -con nuestras mentes, corazones y manos- a restaurar su abundancia. Se dice que donde hay vida hay esperanza, por lo que ningún lugar puede inspirarnos más esperanza que ese gran mar creador de vida, ese océano singular y maravilloso que cubre el planeta azul.

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  Ocean, Heart, Opportunity

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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• Un cuadro no es más que luz reflejada en la superficie de un lienzo cubierto de pigmento. Pero un gran pintor puede hacernos ver la profundidad, hacernos sentir la emoción subyacente, hacernos sentir el mundo más amplio. Ése es también el poder de la ciencia: percibir y transmitir la profundidad y dimensionalidad de la naturaleza, echar un vistazo a la superficie y adivinar la forma del universo que nos rodea.

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  Light, Curiosity, Depth

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• El océano no es sólo un espacio azul en blanco, sino el hábitat de una fauna asombrosa, y tenemos que cuidar cómo lo utilizamos. Si queremos seguir disponiendo de los bienes y servicios que nos proporciona, tenemos que tratarlo con más cuidado en lo que respecta a la pesca y los vertidos.

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  Ocean, Science, Blue

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• Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

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  Reality, Yield, Inquiry

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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• But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

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  Waiting, Revolution

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Si se sobrepesca en la parte superior de la cadena alimentaria y se acidifica el océano en la parte inferior, se crea una presión que podría colapsar todo el sistema.

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  Ocean, Science, Creating

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• Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely.

  Carl Safina

  Light, Sharks, Long

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.304, Macmillan

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• Las criaturas del mar encierran un misterio especial, y se cuentan entre las más emocionantes, gráciles y bellas de la Tierra. No hay más que contemplar el alboroto viviente de un arrecife de coral, la belleza de un albatros, el impresionante poder de una tortuga gigante o la gracia de un delfín. Ahora multiplícalo por los millones de criaturas que hay en el mar. ¡Impresionante!

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  Hermoso, Tortugas, Mar

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• If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

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  Science, Looks, World

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• Para salvar los mares, podemos comer de forma sostenible y ser conscientes del marisco que consumimos.

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  Mar, Consciente, Marisco

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• Si preguntas a los peces si prefieren una marea negra o una temporada de pesca, no me sorprendería que votaran por otra marea negra.

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  Science, Fishing, Oil

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• Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

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  Thinking, Fishing, Two

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.130, Macmillan

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• Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

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  Economy, Ecology, Economist

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

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  Ocean, Crime, Scene

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• Intenta reducir drásticamente el plástico. Recicla. Usa menos energía y más energías renovables. ¡Todos podemos vivir mejor haciendo mejor por nosotros y por el mar!

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  Corte, Mar, Intentando

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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

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  Believe, Science, Oil

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• We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

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  Stress, Ocean, Blessed

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• Varios grupos disponen de información para evaluar la sostenibilidad de los productos del mar. Yo escribí la primera guía de este tipo, y en el Blue Ocean Institute, el grupo que fundé, se pueden descargar guías de bolsillo y evaluaciones detalladas de distintos productos del mar.

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  Ocean, Blue, Pockets

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• For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of development...both Marine Ecosystems and Global Change and Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans are valuable troves that could profitably be mined, and any academic bookshelf would wear them well.

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  Art, Ocean, Book

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