“The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities...” — Sylvia Earle Quote

“The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.”

“I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.”

“The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.”

“Health to the ocean means health for us.”

“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.”

“The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.”

“Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.”

“We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.”

“Tina Snow' was more turnt up than anything I ever dropped, it's my alter ego.”

“What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?”

“Our show is all about energy and all about the skill, so we never have to alter it for different audiences, although maybe we might get crazier at a punk-rock show. With kids moshing and crowd-surfing, we might have to get crazy as well.”

“I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.”