A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWhen 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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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People protect what they love.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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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.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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