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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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People protect what they love.
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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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