Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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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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