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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNow, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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 forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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 were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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People protect what they love.
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