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 COUSTEAUHowever fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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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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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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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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 is the universal sewer.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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