The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe sea is the universal sewer.
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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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