We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.

The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.

Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.

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