The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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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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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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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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