However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea is the universal sewer.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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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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The 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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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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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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