Give the ocean a break. Give yourself a break.

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

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised.

We have to look in the mirror first. What are we doing? How can we make a change? It always starts with looking in the mirror. Every individual can. Every individual can make a difference either by proactively doing something positive or by doing nothing. That's a decision, too.

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

Knowledge is the key to making a difference.