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

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].

I personally have stopped eating seafood.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.