A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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People protect what they love.
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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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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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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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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 forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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