Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves..

For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake….

Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human come….

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could ….

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it..

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….

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned ….

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make yo….

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, h….

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and ….

The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensif….

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're strugg….

The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what….

The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot ….

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology..

Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a ….

It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look fo….

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat..

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review al….

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves ….

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations o….