If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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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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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 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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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 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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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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