The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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People protect what they love.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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