People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heartwill never guess how muchmy wonderful jealousy is dark

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.

If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can teach as well as lead.

There's so much interaction between the crowd and the music that it's an incredible moment to be a part of.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.