The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUFarming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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People protect what they love.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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