The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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