A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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People protect what they love.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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 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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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