All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

The sea is not a bargain basement.

May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.