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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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