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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUPeople protect what they love.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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 sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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