I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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People protect what they love.
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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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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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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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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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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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