Marine Biology

🇺🇸Rachel Carson

Literature

1907–1964

"RachelCarson.org The life and legacy of Rachel Carson"

🇺🇸Stephen Hillenburg

Entertainment

1961–2018

"It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world,"

🇺🇸Sylvia Earle

Science

b. 1935

"No ocean, no life. No blue, no green. No ocean, no us."

🇺🇸Diana Gabaldon

Literature

b. 1952

"Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done."

"We are part of the ecosystem, although because we did not evolve as humans, I feel we are like an invasive species. The bottom line is that we take out of the ocean what we like, and throw in what we don’t want."

"I had jars in my bedroom, much to the chagrin of my mother, you couldn't throw away a mayonnaise jar in my house. That was a specimen jar."