Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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People protect what they love.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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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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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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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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