We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

The revolution starts at the bottom.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.