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.
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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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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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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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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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
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The sea is the universal sewer.
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we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
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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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It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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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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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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