I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUA lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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 am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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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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