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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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