No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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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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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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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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