The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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People protect what they love.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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 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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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 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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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