If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo 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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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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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 sea is the universal sewer.
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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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