“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.”

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

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.

But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

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.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change.

The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.

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.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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.

Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.

Even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

I’m going to show you my faults, I’m going to show you my insecurities, I’m going to be real.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.