Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUBut 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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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 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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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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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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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, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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