Carolina QuotesWithout the legions of minuscule organisms that have preceded us over the ages and whose descendants surround us and support us still, life as we know it could not exist.
Sylvia A. Earle Connected to the Carolinas
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- The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
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- 2009
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