The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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 go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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 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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