All Sylvia Earle Quotes
- Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid… Action
- Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the… Causing
- The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,… All
- The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an… Arctic
- The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end… Concept
- The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place. Came
- The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain… Act
- The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed… Alter
- When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to… Appeared
- Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in… Areas
- On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look… All
- We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature. Altering
- What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. Fish
- There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are… Adopted
- I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of… Boat
- Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000… Areas
- I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise. Endlessly
- People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking… Ball