If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWe 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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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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