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.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAUThe happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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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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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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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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Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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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 biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
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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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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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