Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
SYLVIA EARLEHumans 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.
More Sylvia Earle Quotes
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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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.
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They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
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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.
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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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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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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.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
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That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.
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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.
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