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

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

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.

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

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

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

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.