The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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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 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 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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People protect what they love.
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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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