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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.


Sylvia Earle

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SYLVIA PLATH I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATH I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no m...
SYLVIA PLATH Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physi...
SYLVIA PLATH God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" ...
SYLVIA PLATH And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I h...
SYLVIA PLATH Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...
SYLVIA PLATH Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting...
SYLVIA PLATH I woke to the sound of rain.
SYLVIA PLATH Is there no way out of the mind?
SYLVIA PLATH The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...
SYLVIA PLATH I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATH Widow. The word consumes itself.
SYLVIA PLATH If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as ...
SYLVIA PLATH The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
SYLVIA PLATH The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statistici...
SYLVIA PORTER I am a citizen of the world.
SYLVIA BEACH Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
SYLVIA PLATH If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life ...
SYLVIA PLATH Every woman adores a Fascist.
SYLVIA PLATH I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to re...
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