Ocean Quotes by Sylvia Earle

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.

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We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

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

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

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Give the ocean a break. Give yourself a break.

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The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

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Health to the ocean means health for us.

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Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

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

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

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

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

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

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I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

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

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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the…

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

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Even our rules and regulations, our laws, our policies, favor the destructive nature of taking too much from the ocean and using…

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

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

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

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The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now,…

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Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take,…

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We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do…

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

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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of…

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Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but…

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My first breath was just...it just seemed impossible that you could actually breathe underwater. I knew in my mind it was possible,…

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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on…

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When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I…

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This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

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I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

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The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

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

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Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

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We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

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If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

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The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that…

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There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.

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The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it -…

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