If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWater 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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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