Sylvia Earle Quotes

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Without rain, there would be no life.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Without rain, there is no life.

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

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.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.

What is the key to life on Earth?

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.