We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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 sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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 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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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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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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