If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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People protect what they love.
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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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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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