However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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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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