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.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUOur survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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People protect what they love.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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