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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea is the universal sewer.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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