Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
My first breath was just...it just seemed impossible that you could actually breathe underwater. I knew in my mind it was possible,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the ocean somehow… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.' — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
With respect to the ocean being the heart of our blue planet: We are often asked, 'How much protection is enough?' We can only… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of us, to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
