The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWe 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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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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 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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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