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Download or read book Quotations from Captain Paul Watson written by Paul Watson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Paul Watson was born on December 2nd, 1950 and raised in an Eastern Canadian fishing village called St. Andrew's-By-The-Sea. He began his life of activism at the age of eleven by freeing animals from trap-lines and destroying leg-hold traps and snares and at the age of 18 he was the youngest founding member of the Greenpeace Foundation.He then majored in communications at Simon Fraser University and worked as an Able Seaman in the Norwegian and Swedish merchant marine and served in the Canadian Coast Guard.He began professional writing as a journalist for the Vancouver weekly underground newspaper, the Georgia Straight contributing from 1969 to the present day. He served as a medic for the American Indian Movement during the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. He founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977 and founded Friends of the Wolf in 1984.He was a national director of the Sierra Club 2003-2006He was officially labeled a pirate by the U.S. 9th Circuit Federal Court judge Alex Kozinski in 2012 although never charged with piracy.He co-founded the Mars Conservation Society and the Church of Biocentrism in 2018.His books include Ocean Warrior, Seal Wars, Cry Wolf!, Earthforce!, Sea Shepherd, Songs from the Southern Ocean, Dealing with climate Change and Stress, Desperate Mythologies: Theology, Ecology and the General Insanity of Humanity and The War That Saved The Whales. This is a book of quotations collected over many years of Captain Paul Waton's career as a Conservationist. Inspiring Words from an Official Pirate and Modern Day Captain Nemo.