The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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