We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

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

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

We couldn't go to the moon on whale oil. We don't have the capacity yet to consider doing such things as harnessing current sunlight. We're burning ancient sunlight in order to get us to where we now are. But it's costly.

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.