I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.

Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.