Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.
I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.
I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.
I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
