There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
The future is in the hands of those who explore. . . and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.