“Social change comes through people.”
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Birthday: 2 December 1950
“In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.”
“Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”
“Social change comes through people.”
“Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.”
“I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.”
“WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.”
“What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
“Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.”
“The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.”
“Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.”
“Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die”
“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.”
“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.”
“Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.”
“We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control.”
