We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

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

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.