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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.


Earle Combs

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STEVE EARLE Lions of the Deep.
SYLVIA EARLE Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad star...
SYLVIA EARLE We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 ...
SYLVIA EARLE We all have to take responsibility for the direction we are going. In our schools we are focusing on...
SYLVIA EARLE Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oc...
SYLVIA EARLE It is the worst of times but it is the best of times because we still have a chance.
SYLVIA EARLE You have to love it before you are moved to save it.
SYLVIA EARLE Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now,
SYLVIA EARLE Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction th...
SYLVIA EARLE I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a ...
SYLVIA EARLE The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the ...
STEVE EARLE Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the m...
STEVE EARLE I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laugh...
SYLVIA EARLE When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic'...
SYLVIA EARLE Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
STEVE EARLE Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into...
SYLVIA EARLE I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is b...
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