Every Time I Slip Into

If Somebody Dumps Something Noxious In My Back Yard, The Dumper Is The Last One I Would Call On To Repair The Damage.

We Want To Think Of Ourselves As Truly Special Creatures That Are Unique In The Universe And, Well, We Are. And We Have That Capacity To Wonder, To Question, And To See Ourselves In The Context Of All Of Life That Has Preceded The Present Time, And All That Will Go Off Far Into The Future, One Way Or Another.

Historically, Girls Have Not Been Encouraged To Be Scientists, To Be Explorers, And There's A Social Kind Of Constraint, Of Course. Having The Responsibility, A Disproportionate Part Of The Responsibility, For Caring For Families, Caring For Children. I Know This Challenge From Firsthand Experience Because I Have Three Children And Four Grandsons.and Some Of The Time I Have Spent As A Scientist And As An Explorer Has Meant Choosing To Not Be With My Children And Grandchildren As Much As I Might Otherwise Have Done Had I Not Been A Scientist, An Explorer.

The Ocean Is Our Life Support System. No Blue, No Green. It's Really A Miracle That We Have Got A Place That Works In Our Favor.

There Is An Enormous Amount To Be Learned About The Sea; Like Most Wildernesses, It Has Great Potential.