The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.
We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.
I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.
Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.
Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin. When we lose these animals, we lose resources. We lose keystone species in the environments where they live.
What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.
The number one issue that Ocean Mysteries has opened my eyes to is, no matter where you are, whether you're on a beach in Hawaii, you're diving in the Pacific, you're in a remote archipelago, or you're in the middle of nowhere - I am blown away and sobered and crushed, emotionally crushed, by the amount of marine debris, of garbage, that is now in our ocean.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot. . . or cosmic rays or a power ring. . . Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.
I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.