We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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People protect what they love.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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 sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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