I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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