No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.