The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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