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" Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head. "

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" We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. "

" I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity. "

" I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people. "

" Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' "

" The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. "

" Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans. "

" I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. "

" Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. "

" The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. "

" Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. "

" No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy. "

" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "

" An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. "

" I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. "

" I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. "

" It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves. "

" I don't have a religion, but I respect them. "

" I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. "

" Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless. "

" I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. "

" I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan. "

" Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. "

" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "

" Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience. "

" The sealing industry is dying. "

" The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. "

" The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian. "

" There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. "

" I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. "

" The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war. "