I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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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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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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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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People protect what they love.
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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.
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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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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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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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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 road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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