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

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

The sea is not a bargain basement.

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