There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.

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

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

Give the ocean a break. Give yourself a break.

If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.