28 quotes
As it turns out, the future of the ocean, the creatures who live there, and our own future are inextricably linked.
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
Astronomer Carl Sagan noted that even when it is viewed from so far away that it is a pale dot, Earth is discernibly blue.
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
Highways crisscross the land, simultaneously forming pathways and barriers.
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
Earth's life-support system-the ocean-is failing. But who is paying attention?
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.
My wish: Protect our oceans (2009)
Our soaring population may suggest success as a species, but the environmental price of modern civilization is high, and our prosperity may be short-lived.
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
Without an ocean, there would be no life-no people anyway
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
Knowledge is the superpower of the 21st century. Even the smartest people alive when I was born did not know what 10-year-olds today have available to them. That’s truly cause for hope.
with Time (2021)
No ocean, no life. No blue, no green. No ocean, no us.
The ocean is the blue heart of the planet.
with Time (2021)
In the past few decades-my lifetime-the sea has changed; with each passing year, pressures on ocean resources and ocean ecosystems increase; the size of the ocean does not.
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
There’s heaven on earth. It just happens to be in the ocean.
with 'On Being (2018)
Change happens because of individuals who team up with others or inspire others. And soon you’ve got 10 or 100 or 1,000, and then you’ve got a movement.
with Time (2021)
Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
Without the legions of minuscule organisms that have preceded us over the ages and whose descendants surround us and support us still, life as we know it could not exist.
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
Curiously, those who claim to believe that the earth and all living things were created by God in fact appear to place greater value on human works and the judgment of mankind.
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.