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

If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.

Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.

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.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.