Sylvia Earle Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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 closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.”

“Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.”

“'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.”

“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 provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.”

“I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.”

“The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.”

“All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.”

“If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.”

“My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.”

“In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.”