With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Sylvia Earle More Quotes by Sylvia Earle More Quotes From Sylvia Earle We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. Sylvia Earle our-lives protect ocean Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. Sylvia Earle marine ocean sea There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water. Sylvia Earle water life science When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots. Sylvia Earle florida ocean loss Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world. Sylvia Earle choices natural world I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory. Sylvia Earle marine ocean real With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around. Sylvia Earle safe-haven care ocean We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone. Sylvia Earle sharks opportunity years Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something. Sylvia Earle ocean sea doe We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. Sylvia Earle ecosystems earth together It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water. Sylvia Earle lovely ocean water Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope. Sylvia Earle use blue littles If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not. Sylvia Earle radical ifs seems People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long. Sylvia Earle writing long people I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us. Sylvia Earle ocean sea mean We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature. Sylvia Earle disaster environment loss 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 failing ocean weight We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us. Sylvia Earle connections stills years 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 Earle horizon oil suffering We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return. Sylvia Earle appreciate ocean limits
