Paul Watson Quotes
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
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We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
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I'm not really a fugitive.
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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
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Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.
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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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Social change comes through people.
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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
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As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
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The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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I don't care if I put people off.
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We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.
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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
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Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
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I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.
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In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.
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We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.
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In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.