The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
With respect to the ocean being the heart of our blue planet: We are often asked, ‘How much protection is enough?’ We can only answer with another question: How much of your heart is worth protecting?
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
If the sea is sick, we’ll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.
Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
We’ve got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.