Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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People protect what they love.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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