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The Living Ocean Drives Planetary Chemistry, Governs Climate And Weather, And Otherwise Provides The Cornerstone Of The Life-support System For All Creatures On Our Planet, From Deep-sea Starfish To Desert Sagebrush. That's Why The Ocean Matters. If The Sea Is Sick, We'll Feel It. If It Dies, We Die. Our Future And The State Of The Oceans Are One.

The Earth Is A Unique System In The Universe, The Only Planet We Know Of That's Hospitable For Humankind.

People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.

With Respect To The Ocean Being The Heart Of Our Blue Planet: We Are Often Asked, 'how Much Protection Is Enough?' We Can Only Answer With Another Question: How Much Of Your Heart Is Worth Protecting?

Look At A Child And Realize That Their Future Is In Your Hands. It's Not Just Those Who Will Be Here Fifty Years From Now. The Decisions We Make In The Next Ten Years Will Shape The Next 10,000 Years.