All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

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

Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the things that we put into the air, into the water - of the way we treat life on Earth.