The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

The opportunity that is unique [to our] time is what inspires me to do everything I can to move things forward. This is the first time that we have the capacity to understand our place in the greater scheme of things to the extent that we do.

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

Never before have we known what we know.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.