If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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