Sylvia Earle Quotes

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

People don’t care what you know until they know that you care.

When you're not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it's important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.

I've found throughout life that people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Whether it's with a microphone in your face or if it's just a friend having coffee with you. It's really nice for somebody to ask, 'How are you? Are you OK?'

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.