It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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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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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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