"Without an ocean, there would be no life-no people anyway...Common sense forces me to consider first the incredible sweep of time that preceded this moment and the ocean's great age, relative to the infinitesimally small fragment of time enjoyed thus far by humankind."
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Sylvia Earle Introduction, Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
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