«Ocean Conservation»

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men will never gather up all the plastic and put the ocean back together again.

Charles Moore

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.

(The Sea Around Us)

Rachel Carson

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.

Sylvia Earle

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.

Alain Bombard

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.

Pierce Brosnan

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

Sylvia Earle

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.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

It is the worst of times but it is the best of times because we still have a chance.

Sylvia Earle

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

Bill Clinton

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

Sylvia Earle

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

Fabien Cousteau