There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

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

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.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.