David Helvarg quotes
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“Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.”
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“Any time I get to blow bubbles pretty much lights me up.”
-- David HelvargSource : "David Helvarg, Marine Activist, Answers Questions". Grist Interview, grist.org. January 04, 2005.
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“We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.”
-- David HelvargSource : Public comment to the US Oceans Commission, 2004.
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“Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.”
-- David HelvargSource : Grist magazine, January 03, 2005.
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Source : A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus
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“Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
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“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
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“... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.”
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