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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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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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 were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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 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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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