We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time.