Rather than be afraid of evolution and try to stifle inquiry, people should revel in the joys of knowing and find a serenity and a joy in being a part the rest of life on Earth. Not apart from it, but a part of it.

If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

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.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.