The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIt takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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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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The sea is the universal sewer.
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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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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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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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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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