“I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.” “Ships are expendable; whales are not.” “No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.”“No species is more important than others.” 

On commerce:“The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive – money – to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.” “There’s money to be made by driving a species extinct.” 

On what can you do:     “Stop eating the ocean. There is no such thing as a sustainable fishery. If people eat meat, make sure it’s organic and isn’t contributing to the destruction of the ocean because 40 percent of all fish caught out of the ocean is fed to livestock – chickens on factory farms are fed fish meal. And be cognizant of the fact that if the oceans die, we die. Our ultimate responsibility is to protect biodiversity in our world’s oceans.” Book 

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