Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

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

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.