We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUwe will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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