Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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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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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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