Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

I personally have stopped eating seafood.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.