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Paul Watson
Canadian
Environmentalist
Born:
Dec 2
,
1950
Fish
Going
Me
People
World
You
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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.
Paul Watson
Fight
Superior
Odds
Warrior
Right Thing
Way
Because
Am
The Right Thing
Right
Thing
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
Paul Watson
Dreams
World
Better
Tomorrow
Better World
Follow
Follow Your Dreams
Talents
Make
Skills
Use
Your
Your Dreams
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.
Paul Watson
Strength
Me
Intelligence
Beauty
Other
Earth
Honoured
Spirit
Inspired
Been
Dolphins
Whales
Seals
Creatures
Serve
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
Angry
Winter
Walk
Free
Animals
Back
Destroy
More
Had
Taken
Beaver
Became
Were
Lines
Began
Quite
Pond
Them
Used
Trap
Swim
Traps
Found
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Paul Watson
Money
Destroy
More
Ecology
Tragedy
Than
Much
Incentive
Preserve
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
People
Law
Beginning
Live
Resources
Ecology
Finite
Go
Accordance
Going
Realize
Need
Extinct
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
Paul Watson
Language
Economics
Only
Industry
Understands
Whaling
Japanese
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.
Paul Watson
Ocean
Live
Out
Wipe
Dead
Oceans
Fish
Die
Going
Planet
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.
Paul Watson
Me
Man
Woman
Words
Petty
Liberation
No Words
Heading
Subject
Personal
Bureaucracy
Social
Realm
Describe
There are very few fishermen left today.
Paul Watson
Today
Fishermen
Few
Left
Very
Social change comes through people.
Paul Watson
Change
People
Through
Social
Social Change
No species is more important than others.
Paul Watson
Important
Others
More
Than
Species
The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.
Paul Watson
Natural
Ocean
Opposing
No Reason
Fact
Disaster
Because
Southern
Whaling
Just
Stop
Just Because
Natural Disaster
Japan
Us
Reason
Illegal
Activities
Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.
Paul Watson
Care
Complain
Brought
About
Something
Park
Could
Audience
How
Issue
Dolphin
South
South Park
Very
Whale
Being
Japanese
Really
Less
Large
Large Audience
Hardly
Slaughter
Portrayed
In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
Paul Watson
Women
Men
Men And Women
Weather
Dramatic
Out
Catch
Catching
Also
Deadliest
Ships
Crabs
Whale
Whales
Going
Nations
Different
Confrontation
Sea
Help
Wars
Rough
Seas
Dozen
Save
It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
Paul Watson
War
Think
Ourselves
Planet
Really
Save
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.
Paul Watson
You
Animal
Baby
Say
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Totally
About
Sadistic
Sport
Any
Certainly
Seal
Inclined
Thing
Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
Paul Watson
World
Cause
Say
Am
Greenpeace
Organisation
Now
Largest
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
Paul Watson
Environmental
War
Will
High
High Level
Open
Recruitment
Environmental Movement
Movement
Many
Eventually
Level
I'm thankful to have time to write.
Paul Watson
Thankful
Time
Write
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
Paul Watson
Witness
Nothing
Find
Abhorrent
See
Bear
Whale
Being
Slaughtered
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
Paul Watson
Culture
People
Live
Earth
Say
People Say
Well
Duh
Manipulate
Media
Why
People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.
Paul Watson
Good
Feel Good
People
Money
Giving
About
Feel
Greenpeace
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.
Paul Watson
Nature
World
Law
National
United Nations
Section
High
High Seas
Charter
Area
Individual
Beyond
Empowers
Uphold
Jurisdiction
Any
Nations
Organisation
International
Seas
United
Specifically
Conservation
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
Paul Watson
Hero
Trouble
Go
After
Rican
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
Paul Watson
Will
Long
Ocean
Crew
Shepherd
Continue
Southern
Whale
Patrol
Sanctuary
Sea
Defend
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