Social change comes through people. Paul Watson More Quotes by Paul Watson More Quotes From Paul Watson Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues. Paul Watson hunting animal years Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. Paul Watson population immigration growth We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with. Paul Watson planets intelligent trying I’ve got no criminal record. Paul Watson criminals records We go after unlawful activities. Paul Watson unlawful activity The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover. Paul Watson chance fishing would-be It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine. Paul Watson media believe people Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. Paul Watson hunters ice animal This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians. Paul Watson whales four animal You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing. Paul Watson living-things commit violence Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child. Paul Watson mother father children In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. Paul Watson ecosystems community people There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws. Paul Watson motivation ocean law To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws Paul Watson teeth marine beautiful I have a lot of family in Canada right across the country, i just find it incredible that as a Canadian citizen, I can't return to my own country - the country I was born in - without any explanation given to me as to why. Paul Watson environment They're just basically stonewalling me on this. Paul Watson environment 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. Paul Watson walk free angry winter People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct. Paul Watson live beginning law people The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. Paul Watson only economics industry language I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate. Paul Watson doing thought strange violence
