When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

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

With knowing comes caring.

Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet the attention of everyone to understand where we've come from and where we might be going. We need to understand the world around us if we are to succeed as a species on the planet.

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

Health to the ocean means health for us.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you