Barrels Quote by Sylvia Earle

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

— 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 come to…

— Sylvia Earle

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

— 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 can only…

— 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 one.

— 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 us, to…

— Sylvia Earle

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

— Sylvia Earle