Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Paul Franklin Watsonis a marine wildlife conservation and an environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation. He is a citizen of Canada and the United States...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 December 1950
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
greenpeace left since whale
I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
oppose takes threatens wants
Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
bestows describe heading liberation petty social subject
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.
abhorrent
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
greenpeace
Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
dutch
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
bomb protest somebody threat
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.
what-matters long schemes
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
riding meat vegan
A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
conceited religion apes
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
unlawful activity
We go after unlawful activities.
conceited thinking mind
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
ecosystems people community
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.
criminals records
I’ve got no criminal record.