The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUPeople protect what they love.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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 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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