There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet-as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean...We are learning otherwise.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.