Randy Wayne White Quotes

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

The sea is the universal sewer.

I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.

Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

We have done extraordinary things to destroy our waters. We can never do enough to research and coordinate cleaning these waters up.

Unrestricted dumping in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters harms the habitat and harms the fish. You don’t have to be a fisherman to understand this, it’s plain to anyone.

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

Harmful Algal Blooms are a serious environmental and economic threat to New Jersey.

Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean.

I guess over the course of time, I started to open up to a lot of the issues surrounding the oceans. From my personal experience, being out in the water and seeing plastics floating around and thinking they are jellyfish and realizing they're plastic bags. I'm always that guy that will take it into the shore.

At nine, I started catching fish in Vancouver full of tumours from toxins.

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.