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I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love. — Sylvia Earle

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. — Sylvia Earle

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. — Sylvia Earle

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

We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. — Sylvia Earle

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

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

Never before have we known what we know. — Sylvia Earle

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior. — Sylvia Earle

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat. — Sylvia Earle

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know. — Sylvia Earle

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. — Sylvia Earle

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.' — Sylvia Earle

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential. — Sylvia Earle

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together. — Sylvia Earle

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible. — Sylvia Earle

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have. — Sylvia Earle

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up. — Sylvia Earle

I am not in any hurry to grow up. — Sylvia Earle

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted. — Sylvia Earle

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime. — Sylvia Earle

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

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed. — 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

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. — Sylvia Earle

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

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. — Sylvia Earle

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water. — Sylvia Earle

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return. — Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings. — Sylvia Earle

We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail. — Sylvia Earle

What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it. — Sylvia Earle

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. — 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

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

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us. — Sylvia Earle

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes. — Sylvia Earle

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature. — Sylvia Earle

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory. — Sylvia Earle

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm. — Sylvia Earle

It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us. — Sylvia Earle

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home. — Sylvia Earle

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish. — Sylvia Earle

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one. — Sylvia Earle

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you — Sylvia Earle

I personally have stopped eating seafood. — Sylvia Earle

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways. — Sylvia Earle

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. — Sylvia Earle

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. — Sylvia Earle

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