No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUIf 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 real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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People protect what they love.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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