we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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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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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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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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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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People protect what they love.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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