Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUI 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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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People protect what they love.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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