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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.

Jacques Yves Cousteau
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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.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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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 mans only hope. Now as never before the old phrase has a literal meaning we are all in the same boat.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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.
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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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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.
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