Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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People protect what they love.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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