We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
The concept of ‘peak oil’ has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. ‘Peak fish’ occurred around the end of the 1980s. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it. Sylvia Earle Read Quote
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 Read Quote