The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth... our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.

The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.

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

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.