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.
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.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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 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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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