The sea is the universal sewer.
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.
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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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If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
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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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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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People protect what they love.
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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 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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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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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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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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If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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