The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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