The sea is not a bargain basement.

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

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.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

The sea is not a bargain basement.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.