If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWe forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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 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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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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 will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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