Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUNo 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 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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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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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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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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 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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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