Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWe 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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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People protect what they love.
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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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