A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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 were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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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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