Health to the ocean means health for us.

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.

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

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural world as a source of our survival. But no creature has ever consumed at the scale that humans have, and now there are seven billion of us. I think the good news is that a large percentage of those seven billion minds can work to make better decisions.

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