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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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