If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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People protect what they love.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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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