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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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People protect what they love.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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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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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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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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