Quotes About Ocean Conservation

#1. 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.

Sylvia Earle

#2. I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

Ted Danson

#3. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#4. The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

Mary Lambert

#5. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sylvia Earle

#7. Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.

Mark Powell

#8. I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

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

William J. Clinton

#10. It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Stephen Covey

#11. The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#12. If you eat, there will be shit. It's like Newton's Law or something.

Oriana Small

#13. The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

Ashley Montagu

#14. There are limits to the dimension of fear. Until one meets the unknown. Then terror has no boundaries, no walls to keep it contained.

Carol Hedges

#15. I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.

Bernard Hopkins

#16. History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

Penelope Lively

#17. There is no such thing as a man-eating shark, only shark-eating men exist.

Melissa Haynes