But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
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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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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Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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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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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
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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 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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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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 sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
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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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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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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