All Carl Safina Quotes
- We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not… Blessed
- We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene. Charge
- If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse… Acidifying
- The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it.… Amazing
- For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know… Abundance
- Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we… Believe
- [About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when… Advertised
- If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be. From
- 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,… Canvas
- Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty… All
- The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best.… Asks
- Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human… Cause
- Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. Ecology
- Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how… Ability
- But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it. Becomes
- The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's… All
- Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels… Across
- I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're… Drawn
- For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of… Academic
- Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty… All
- 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 for… Ask
- 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 into… Ahead
- When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being… All
- As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D. Find
- Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for… Available