If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.

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.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

Knowledge is the key to making a difference.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.