We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

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

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

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.

We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.

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.