"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn…"

"Sylvia Earle, though a great scientist, is also the heir to Jacques Cousteau, inducting the landbound among us into t…"

"Sylvia Earle's generation — they were explorers...They’re like, what is even down there? How do we understand this? A…"

"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink benea…"

"Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man bec…"

"The sea is the universal sewer."

"We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization i…"

"Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians."

"If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the …"

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know w…"