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

- Carl Safina

[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 …

- Carl Safina

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…

- Carl Safina

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…

- Carl Safina

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…

- Carl Safina

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…

- Carl Safina

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 …

- Carl Safina

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

- Carl Safina

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

- Carl Safina