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" Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. "

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" Every fish in the ocean is in danger. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades. "

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

" In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero. "

" 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. "

" Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed. "

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" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "

" Social change comes through people. "

" We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly. "

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

" Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. "

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

" 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. "

" My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. "

" A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. "

" In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses. "

" I don't think you really have to retire from what you do. "

" My clients are the whales and the seals. "

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

" I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. "

" Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese. "

" All confrontation is based on deception. "