Ocean Conservation Quotes

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth's water is there. It's the blue heart of the planet - we should take care of our heart. It's what makes life possible for us. We still have a really good chance to make things better than they are. They won't get better unless we take the action and inspire others to do the same thing. No one is without power. Everybody has the capacity to do something.

The sea is the universal sewer.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

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 said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

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

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.