164 Quotes by Sylvia Earle

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

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

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. 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.

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

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

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.

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

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