The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWhen 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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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People protect what they love.
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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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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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