But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUOur survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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People protect what they love.
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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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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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