However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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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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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