It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

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

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

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.

You should ask where your food is coming from.

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.