We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUWhat 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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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 is the universal sewer.
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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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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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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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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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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 takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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