Latest Sylvia Earle Quotes from Interviews

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• There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds. I know some really intelligent fish. But they cannot know what humans know and are incapable of inflicting as much damage.

  Sylvia Earle

  Smart, Intelligent, Bird

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural world as a source of our survival. But no creature has ever consumed at the scale that humans have, and now there are seven billion of us. I think the good news is that a large percentage of those seven billion minds can work to make better decisions.

  Sylvia Earle

  Thinking, Bird, Decision

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• Look at a child and realize that their future is in your hands. It's not just those who will be here fifty years from now. The decisions we make in the next ten years will shape the next 10,000 years.

  Sylvia Earle

  Children, Decision, Realizing

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.

  Sylvia Earle

  Week, Young Women

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• Historically, girls have not been encouraged to be scientists, to be explorers, and there's a social kind of constraint, of course. Having the responsibility, a disproportionate part of the responsibility, for caring for families, caring for children. I know this challenge from firsthand experience because I have three children and four grandsons.And some of the time I have spent as a scientist and as an explorer has meant choosing to not be with my children and grandchildren as much as I might otherwise have done had I not been a scientist, an explorer.

  Sylvia Earle

  Girl, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• We have to look in the mirror first. What are we doing? How can we make a change? It always starts with looking in the mirror. Every individual can. Every individual can make a difference either by proactively doing something positive or by doing nothing. That's a decision, too.

  Sylvia Earle

  Decision, Making A Difference, Making Changes

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• Globally sharks have been killed for their fins, for their cartilage, for their livers, for their meat. But mostly what has driven some species of sharks to near extinction - including the hammerhead shark - is the new luxury taste for shark fin soup.

  Sylvia Earle

  Driven

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

  Sylvia Earle

  Unique, Earth, Universe

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• The value of sharks' lives is now widely understood to be more important than their value as products. And when you have sharks in an area, it's a sign of good health. They're top predators, which means they feed on old, sick, and slower fish, keeping an entire population healthy.

  Sylvia Earle

  Mean, Sick, Healthy

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

• 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

  Blue, Use, Littles

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2017

• We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

  Sylvia Earle

  Generations, Favors, Greedy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Safe Haven, Care

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2017

• If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

  Sylvia Earle

  Differences, Choices, Making A Difference

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Give the ocean a break. Give yourself a break.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Giving, Break

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2018

• You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.

  Sylvia Earle

  Taken, Order, Ecosystems

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• You should ask where your food is coming from.

  Sylvia Earle

  Should, Asks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.

  Sylvia Earle

  Country, Crazy, Japan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.

  Sylvia Earle

  Integrity, Maintaining, Wildlife

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Choices, World, Natural

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Two, Protected

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Fishing, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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

  Opportunity, Sharks, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• It is not too late to turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Too Late, Late, Turns

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.

  Sylvia Earle

  Years, Important, Next

  Source: www.spiegel.de