Paul Watson Quotes & Sayings

“I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.”

“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.”

“Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.”

“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.”

“We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.”

“The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.”

“Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.”

“Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.”

“If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.”

“It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.”