Paul Watson Quotes
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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.
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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
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I don't care if I put people off.
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In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.
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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.
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Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.
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I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
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The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
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I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.
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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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Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
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We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.
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Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'
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Every fish in the ocean is in danger.
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The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a conservative organization. I am a conservative. You can't get more conservative than being a conservationist. Our entire raison de etre is to conserve and protect. The radicals of the world are destroying our oceans and our forests, our wildlife and our freedom.
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Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
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Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
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Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.
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People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.