Quotes by Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle

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

Important

Issues

Serious

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.

Class

College

Girl

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

America

Goal

Government

Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

Astronaut

Care

Support Systems

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

Attitude

Children

Ocean

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.

Burning

Fossils

Fuel

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

Sharks

Turtles

Years

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

Week

Young Women

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

Ecosystems

Effort

Support

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

Integrity

Maintaining

Wildlife

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Abundance

Achieve

Age

Agriculture

Air

Airplane

Alive

America

Animal

Appreciate

Appreciation

Arrogance

Asking

Asking Questions

Asks

Astronaut

Atmosphere

Attention

Attitude

Backyards

Beautiful

Behavior

Believe

Bigs

Bird

Blessed

Blue

Break

Breathing

Burning

Campaigns

Capacity

Carbon Cycle

Care

Caring

Causes

Century

Challenges

Chance

Chemistry

Children

Choices

Cities

Class

Climate

College

Communication

Connections

Coral Reefs

Cost

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Quotes by Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle

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

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.

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

Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

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.

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

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

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

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