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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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People protect what they love.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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