Quotes by Sylvia Earle

About Sylvia Earle:

Sylvia Alice Earle is an American marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer. Since 1998 she has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998.
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Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

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No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Sylvia Earle

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Sylvia Earle

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many...

Sylvia Earle

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

Sylvia Earle

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.

Sylvia Earle

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land...

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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 others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a h...

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Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

Sylvia Earle

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.

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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving...

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I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.

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We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

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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.

Sylvia Earle

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Sylvia Earle

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

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

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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.

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I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.

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Author Bio

  • NameSylvia Earle
  • DescriptionAmerican oceanographer
  • BornAugust 30, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBiologist; Oceanographer
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame