Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUMan, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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People protect what they love.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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