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.
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
Scientists never stop asking. They’re little kids who never grew up.
Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.
I personally have stopped eating seafood.
I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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.
If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it’s primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, ‘What you don’t have in your mind, you have on your shelf.’ But now we have the Web.
I am not in any hurry to grow up.
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
Health to the ocean means health for us.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class – which wasn’t such a bad deal.
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.