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We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?

Health to the ocean means health for us.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.