The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUThe road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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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 sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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