Sylvia Earle Quotes

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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 doing, secure hope…
• Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something…
• Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
• I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
• The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.
• I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
• People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.…
• 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 save sharks and…
• There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
• Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of…
• There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or…
• We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into…
• Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the…
• We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still…
• Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.
• Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
• We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth.
• I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with…
• You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you
• Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be…

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