Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“Summer has weeks left, but once the calendar displays the word “September,” you’d think it was Latin for “evacuate.” I pity them… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“The world is changing because we're changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I'd like to… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned.… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“There appears no assurance that in the times of our own grandchildren the world will contain viable populations of wild African Lions,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for… — Carl Safina Copy Share
Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the… — Carl Safina Copy Share
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were… — Carl Safina Copy Share
“Summer has weeks left, but once the calendar displays the word “September,” you’d think it was Latin for “evacuate.” I pity them for missing… — Carl Safina Copy Share
“The world belongs to us, the wise ones, we declare...will we be pirates or captains, slumlords or godparents of time? Will we burn the… — Carl Safina Copy Share
To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat. — Carl Safina Copy Share
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote… — Carl Safina Copy Share
“In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. “And what we see, “says the… — Carl Safina Copy Share
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves… — Carl Safina Copy Share
“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and… — Carl Safina Copy Share
“Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always, the ability… — Carl Safina Copy Share
“The world is changing because we're changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I'd like to be. A… — Carl Safina Copy Share
As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D. — Carl Safina Copy Share
