A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUFrom 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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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People protect what they love.
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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 were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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