No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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