Dustin Clare Quotes

I like underwater life.

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals ... using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -- farming replacing hunting.

I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for my own self-expression.

I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was growing up and always wanted to be surrounded by wildlife.

I studied marine biology, even taught marine science before I got into animation, so I had an interest in that field and those animals.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.

We were shooting in a French island called La Reunion. One of my crew members gifted me free-diving equipment and took me to the waters on my day off. I spotted sharks and species of fish which can't be found elsewhere. It was a very refreshing experience for me.

I am an ocean lover and fish watcher and had studied marine biology and even taught marine sciences before I got into animation.

I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.

I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

I suppose the marine biology was a post-teen thing. I was kind of on my way but I was one of those teenage boys who got to 13, 14 and had no idea what I was going to do. I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.

It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.

I am delighted to see that the issue of coral reefs is receiving the attention it deserves.

I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.

I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.

Jacques Cousteau was my hero.

The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland.