Done Quote by Lisa Murkowski

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

— Daniel Yergin

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

— Jeff Goodell

When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted…

— Benjamin Barber

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

— Sylvia Earle

The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it…

— James Hervey

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

— Sylvia Earle

We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.

— Serge Dedina

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of…

— Condoleezza Rice

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do…

— Elizabeth Dole

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect…

— Louis Bacon

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of…

— Tom Allen

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

— Sylvia Earle