The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive – money – to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
I’ve got no criminal record.
The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as ‘taboo.’ If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
We go after unlawful activities.
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can’t live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
What we need now is heroes – millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
If you don’t know an answer, a fact, a statistic – make it up on the spot.
All of the great whales are endangered.
The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
North American cats eat more fish than all the world’s seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.
This isn’t a hunt that’s going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.
Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.
Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it’s worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.
You can’t love nature with a gun.
Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.
Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet’s sharks combined.
We don’t give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn’t sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.