Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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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 sea is the universal sewer.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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People protect what they love.
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