All Sylvia Earle Quotes
- If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage. Back Yard
- If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system. Earth
- In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from. All
- Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. Almost Anything
- Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat. Few
- My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. Backyard
- The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. Century
- We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return. Aggressive
- When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed. Abundant
- By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures… Been
- Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry,… Amount
- When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and… Communicate
- Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can… Any
- As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as… Attitude
- Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we… All
- For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh'… Arctic
- 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 roads. Ultimately, where… Agriculture
- 'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. Attention
- I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial… Amount
- It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have… Capability
- 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. It's feeding a… Drives
- Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads,… Bark
- Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with… Accelerate
- Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean,… Account
- Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for… All