The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

Never before have we known what we know.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.

We couldn't go to the moon on whale oil. We don't have the capacity yet to consider doing such things as harnessing current sunlight. We're burning ancient sunlight in order to get us to where we now are. But it's costly.