There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
Sylvia A. Earle Connected to the Carolinas
Source
No citation is recorded for this quotation.
- work
- Introduction
no citation recorded
Cite this record
“There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but no…” Sylvia A. Earle. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E709403257. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e709403257
More from Sylvia A. Earle
High on my short list of heroes for science-based ocean conservation is Graeme Kelleher, for 25 years the chairman of Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and for his entire career a proponent of marine protected areas.
(My parents and grandparents) witnessed the start of an era of unprecedented global consumption of living resources, the transformation of an earthly paradise 4.6 billion years in the making skimmed for the short-term service of a single insatiable species.
on balance, if I had to choose the most interesting and important time in all of human history to live, it would be now. As never before, and perhaps as never again, the choices made in the near future will determine mankind's success, or lack of it. These are the "good old days" sure to be envied by those in the future.