The sea is the universal sewer.
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.
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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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