More from Sylvia Earle
There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
Sylvia EarleSylvia 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 EarleSylvia Earle In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle 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.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle
Original quotes
From our community writers
You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
TMCTMC
Meet the writers
More on for
For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.
Kevin HartKevin Hart I live a boring life, but it’s perfect for me.
John DalyJohn Daly These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz 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.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle Health to the ocean means health for us.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
Eartha KittEartha Kitt As for our majority… one is enough.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli
