I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUwe will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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 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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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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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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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