Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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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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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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