A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 the best weather and the most energized time of year…It’s an extremely impressive display of life at the apogee of summer, the year’s productivity mounded and piled past the angle of repose. It is a world… — 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 Image
To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
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 Image
“In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. “And what we see, “says the poet Mary Oliver, “is the world that cannot cherish us, but which we cherish.” As though life itself is the great, universal, unrequited love of all time. But there is even more to this. Deep mystery.… — 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 Image
“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 have "rights" to do whatever we want to land, water, air, and forests, which are among the most valuable assets in humanity's basic endowments? To say, in the march of eons, that we own these things… — Carl Safina Copy Share
