Top 199 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Watson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian environmentalist Paul Watson.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.
I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.
A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.
I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.
The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.
My clients are the whales and the seals.
Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
The sealing industry is dying.
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.
Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.
The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.
The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
All confrontation is based on deception.
Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
I'm thankful to have time to write.
There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.
Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.
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.
No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
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.
The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.
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.
The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.
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.
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing.
I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
There are very few fishermen left today.
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.
I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.
Social change comes through people.
You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.
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.
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.
I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.
People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
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