The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

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.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

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.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. 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.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

People protect what they love.

The sea is the universal sewer.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

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.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

The sea the great unifier is mans only hope. Now as never before the old phrase has a literal meaning we are all in the same boat.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

If we go on the way we have the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change we will disappear from the face of the globe to be replaced by the insect.

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.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage mother nature. 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.

The future is in the hands of those who explore and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

When one man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life he has no right to keep it to himself.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

What is a scientist after all It is a curious man looking through a keyhole the keyhole of nature trying to know whats going on.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.