No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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 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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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