We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUPeople protect what they love.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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