If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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