If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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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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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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People protect what they love.
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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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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers.
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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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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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