Sylvia Earle Quotes
Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.
Earle, Sylvia A. The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One. National Geographic Books, 2009.
The mosaics of Jesus and Mary at Hagia Sophia:
Most religions are concerned with maintaining the authenticity and purity of their teachings and schisms and heretics often result when there are changes or some feel their ought to be changes. This quotation illustrates an unusual characteristic of the Bahai religion—the desire that their teachings change with the times and with new knowledge.
1st Baron Macaulay. See {620691} for a related idea.
This statement is very revealing in that it illustrates the attitude of the establishment of most developing nations. Traditional change is OK as long as it is not does transformational—ie as long as it does not make any meaningful changes. But modernization requires transformational change; without it there is no major reform and all institutions and power structures remain in their positions.
Sylvia Alice Earle is an American marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998. Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998. She is also part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife.
