Sylvia Earle

We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50…

— Sylvia Earle

Health to the ocean means health for us.

— Sylvia Earle

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

— Sylvia Earle

We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

— Sylvia Earle

My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always…

— Sylvia Earle

There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other…

— Sylvia Earle

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an…

— Sylvia Earle

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

— Sylvia Earle

With respect to the ocean being the heart of our blue planet: We are often asked, 'How much protection is enough?' We…

— 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

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

— Sylvia Earle

When you think about the real cost of so-called cheap energy that has driven our prosperity to unprecedented levels, for some of…

— Sylvia Earle

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation…

— Sylvia Earle

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what…

— Sylvia Earle

The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent…

— Sylvia Earle

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions.…

— Sylvia Earle

Globally sharks have been killed for their fins, for their cartilage, for their livers, for their meat. But mostly what has driven…

— Sylvia Earle

Never before have we known what we know.

— Sylvia Earle

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

— Sylvia Earle

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

— Sylvia Earle

Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also…

— Sylvia Earle

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

— Sylvia Earle

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature…

— 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

Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages…

— Sylvia Earle