Ted Danson Quotes

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.

If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

Not only have I made films about the subject, but I've largely funded them on my own, so I'm fully committed to doing whatever I can to change the audience's respect and appreciation for the ocean. In 100 years I want whales, dolphins and sharks to still be around, and the ocean to be a healthier place.

The simple fact that half of the oxygen that we breathe is produced by the oceans should be reason enough to mobilize around the issue of better protecting our oceans.

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.

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?

We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.

Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.

The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.