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An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.
I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.
The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.
He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.
Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.
We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.
We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.
In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.
I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.
The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.