It isn't too late to shift from the swift, sharp decline of ocean systems in recent decades to an era of steady recovery. There is time, and there is a growing awareness, which is the best way to counter indifference. People who know might care.

The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

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.

For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.

Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.