With Knowing Comes Caring.

When Some People Look At A Shrimp They Think, "hmm. Delicious." When I Look At A Shrimp I Think, "you're A Miracle, Absolutely Incredible. Your Ancestors Have Gone Back Hundreds Of Millions Of Years." And To Develop A Thing As Simple As A Shrimp Cocktail, You Have To Calculate The Hundreds Of Millions Of Years That Have Preceded That Moment Where You're Sitting There With Your Sauce And Fork Poised.

Santa Monica Bay Is Less Polluted Today Than When I First Moved To The Area In The 1970s, Because Actions Have Been Taken To Avoid Putting Some Of The Noxious Materials Into The Sea. I Think People Are More Aware Than They Once Were, The Air Is Cleaner, Water Generally Is, In Spite Of The Fact That There Are More People.

The Oceans Deserve Our Respect And Care, But You Have To Know Something Before You Can Care About It.

The Earth Is A Tiny Blue Speck In A Universe Of Unfriendly Options.

I'm Haunted By The Thought Of What Ray Anderson Calls 'tomorrow's Child,' Asking Why We Didn't Do Something On Our Watch To Save Sharks And Bluefin Tuna And Squids And Coral Reefs And The Living Ocean While There Still Was Time. Well, Now Is That Time.