I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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No 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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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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People protect what they love.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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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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