With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

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.

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

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

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

With knowing comes caring.

I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.