Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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