The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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 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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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 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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