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" I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. "

Paul Watson

Earthquake

California

Nature

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" I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody. "

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" I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps. "

" Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. "

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

" Ships are expendable; the whales are not. "

Paul Watson

Ships

Whales

" It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew. "

" People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. "

" We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. "

" Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. "

" Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold. "

" Social change comes through people. "

" Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. "

" Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. "

" People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct. "

Paul Watson

Beginning

Law

" If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean. "

" The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. "

" Documentaries make a difference. "

" Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. "

" I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations. "

" Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. "

" Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together. "

Paul Watson

Cats

House

" My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me. "

" I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law. "

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

" There's no rest when you're on planetary duty. "

" As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it. "

" 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. "