Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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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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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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People protect what they love.
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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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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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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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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 awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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