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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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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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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 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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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