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Sylvia Earle

American marine biologist and oceanographer85 QUOTES

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Sylvia Earle is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, writer, and lecturer. Born in 1935, she is known for her work in ocean science and for helping bring public attention to the sea. She has served as a National Geographic Explorer at Large since 1998. Earle was the first chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Time named her its first Hero for the Planet in 1998. Her writing and talks often return to the ocean and the need to understand and protect it.

“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.”

THE UNIVERSEEARTH

“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.”

THE OCEANRESILIENCE

“People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.”

FISHING

“My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.”

REFLECTIONS

“There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.”

LETTERS