Sylvia Earle

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

— Sylvia Earle

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

— Sylvia Earle

Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.

— Sylvia Earle

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

— Sylvia Earle

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth.

— Sylvia Earle

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

— Sylvia Earle

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are…

— Sylvia Earle

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

— Sylvia Earle

Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is…

— Sylvia Earle

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the…

— Sylvia Earle

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found…

— Sylvia Earle

It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for…

— Sylvia Earle

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

— Sylvia Earle

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

— Sylvia Earle

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to…

— Sylvia Earle

The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of…

— Sylvia Earle

We couldn't go to the moon on whale oil. We don't have the capacity yet to consider doing such things as harnessing…

— Sylvia Earle

The image of Earth from space transformed our view of ourselves. It is maybe the most important image that exists - because…

— Sylvia Earle

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion…

— Sylvia Earle

Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish,…

— Sylvia Earle

It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make…

— Sylvia Earle

When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle,…

— Sylvia Earle

The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures…

— Sylvia Earle

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many…

— Sylvia Earle

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human…

— Sylvia Earle

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so…

— Sylvia Earle

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of…

— Sylvia Earle

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the…

— Sylvia Earle

If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident…

— Sylvia Earle

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work…

— Sylvia Earle

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and…

— Sylvia Earle

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

— Sylvia Earle

Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

— Sylvia Earle

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

— Sylvia Earle

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of…

— Sylvia Earle

I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to…

— Sylvia Earle

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern…

— Sylvia Earle

It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence…

— Sylvia Earle

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because…

— Sylvia Earle

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

— Sylvia Earle