The sea is the universal sewer.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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