People protect what they love.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUOur survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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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 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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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