Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUMankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
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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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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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