Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUwe 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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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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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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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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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