The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

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

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him.

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