We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

That attitude of arrogance, that attitude of "It's all about me. It's all about what I can get out of life now" - well, I'm personally driven by wanting to get out of my life the best I can achieve as a gift for those who come after me.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

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.

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.