The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt 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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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 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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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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