The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUI believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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People protect what they love.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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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 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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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