A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUFrom 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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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People protect what they love.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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