But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUPeople protect what they love.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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 go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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