The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAUFarming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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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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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 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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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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