The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at 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.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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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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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 believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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