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I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.

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

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

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

We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

Never before have we known what we know.

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

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

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

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

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

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

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

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.

What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

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.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

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.

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

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

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

I personally have stopped eating seafood.

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

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

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.