Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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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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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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