The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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People protect what they love.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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