The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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People protect what they love.
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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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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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 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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When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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