I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.
Sylvia EarleIf you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.
Sylvia EarleEating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.
Sylvia EarleThe climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.
Sylvia EarleThroughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.
Sylvia Earle