Sylvia Earle quotes - page 2

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together. (Sylvia Earle)
Health to the ocean means health for us. View quote
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If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system. View quote
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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 for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us. View quote
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I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.' View quote
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Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future. View quote
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. View quote
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible. View quote
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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, and hold the planet steady. View quote
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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 that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. View quote
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime. (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. View quote
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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 Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area. View quote
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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, even without major spills. View quote
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences. View quote
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. View quote
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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 to biodiversity. View quote
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater. View quote
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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 be harmed by anything that people could do. View quote
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I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know. View quote
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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. (Sylvia Earle)
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. View quote
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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 fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining. View quote
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If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage. View quote
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The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. View quote
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Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle - Image
Photo: Вени Марковски, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Scientist
Born: August 30, 1935
Quotes count: 74

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