Paul Watson Quotes
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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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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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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together.
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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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If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
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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 don't care if I put people off.
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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
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The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
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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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I'm not really a fugitive.
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The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
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I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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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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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.