The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

Give the ocean a break. Give yourself a break.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

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