“The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.”

The sea is the universal sewer.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.

People protect what they love.

we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.

Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

When I’m stylizing, it’s all about accessories.

There’s a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I’ve always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power..

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.