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.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUNo sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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No 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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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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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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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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