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

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

When you are a child you learn your alphabet, your numbers, but increasingly, we must learn from the earliest stages that the highest priority has to be to maintain the world as a safe place for humankind.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

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.