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 COUSTEAUWe 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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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People protect what they love.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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 sea is the universal sewer.
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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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