Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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