If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to 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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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When 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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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