Vaquita Quotes

But you know as well as I do that there are always more than one side to an issue.

I have seen many, many things that should make me miserable. I have been in situations that I never thought I could change. But I chose to make my life different. Chose to be happy. It is the one thing that you can and must do for yourself to ever live a complete life. Was it easy? Not always. But you can make choices that can make it right for everyone. Suffering forever isn’t the best way to go.

Whatever it is, you can decide what you want, and you can decide to be happy.

There are lots of moments worthy of taking the time to experience. Most people choose not to.

anything in life can be as easy or as complicated as you choose it to be. Choose happy.

Happy.

Whatever it is, you can decide what you want, and you can decide to be happy.” “It’s not that easy.” She felt her stomach tighten at the thought of the decision she needed to make. “Sure it is. Just choose happy. Whatever that means for you.

I believe that no one is responsible for all that happens, and that everything is going to be all right. Always.

What I meant to say is that I believe anyone can be happy as long as he or she chooses to be. And that it’s your responsibility to be so. So,

also know that fear of pain is one thing that will keep us not out of pain, but concrete us into it. You can never find joy if you spend all of your time avoiding pain. It consumes you.

Nosotros teníamos una vaquita que cayó por el precipicio y murió. De ahí en adelante nos vimos en la necesidad de hacer otras cosas y desarrollar otras habilidades que no sabía-mos que teníamos; así alcanzamos el éxito que sus ojos ven ahora.

Conservation castes do exist. They influence the direction of public funds and attention, and they create professional competition. After all, it is hard for an egg-laying fish to contend with a baby-birthing porpoise, just as it is hard for a shy porpoise to contend with a gregarious dolphin or for a sea-dwelling dolphin to contend with a cuddly home- raised dog. As George Orwell surmised, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I see the extinction of a species as an assault against the evolutionary history of this planet,” Tom Jefferson of VIVA Vaquita once told me. “For a species that has been evolving for millions of years to be snuffed out by our stupidity and greed, to me that is like the worst crime that can be committed.

Ask a graybeard for a fish story, and you are bound to be regaled about a childhood catch that was “this big!” Any listening kids will giggle. They’ll think that he’s exaggerating or that his memory has failed—after all, no fish is that big. Actually, fish really were that big. In fact, fishing preferentially removes larger specimens, causing a steady decrease in overall size. When the old man passes away, so does his baseline. Every generation naturally accepts the planet as it is, with ever-smaller fish, fewer birds, and less ice. That’s how humans as a whole unwittingly overlook drastic and devastating changes to the environment. The unfolding declines are broken into a series of baselines—ever shifting—so the overall loss is never felt by a single generation, never suffered by a single soul.

Barb once told me, “You’d think that with the most endangered marine mammal on Earth, that you’d be able to get someone like National Geographic or Animal Planet to be interested. But they won’t touch it. They want full-frame underwater video, and if they can’t have that, tough, the species gets to go extinct.

I remembered Lorenzo telling me that CNN had approached him to do a piece on vaquita, but they wanted them leaping out of the water. He had to say, no, vaquitas don’t do that. So, CNN never came.

Sarah rotated her chair and glanced out her office window at the gray afternoon sky. “People who love the ocean often ask me what they can do to save it,” she said. “And what do you tell them?” She swiveled to face me. “Eat sustainably caught seafood. Ask where your seafood comes from and support people who are doing the right thing. And you will bite by bite change the world.