Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
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The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
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Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
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Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.
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I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.
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One's ships come in over a calm sea.
