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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUHowever fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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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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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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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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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 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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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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