The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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People protect what they love.
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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 sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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